It sounds like you just have a messed up install. These files are installed normally during the configuration stage; if you reboot the system before it's completed this stage, it can result in these files not being put into place properly. This can cause a lot of trouble, which it sounds like you've been having. A fresh reinstall is probably the easiest solution, although if you're skillful with apt you can probably get it back in shape, but that's outside the scope of an X bug report.
Regarding the fglrx from AMD, that won't work. AMD has not yet released a version of fglrx for the kernel we include in Karmic. The fglrx we have is a pre-release version they've provided for Karmic. Regarding the problem with xorg.conf when manually removing fglrx, that's not really a bug - if you manually remove a video driver you also need to manually remove it from xorg.conf. ** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- fglrx fails at startup because of missing amdpcsdb.default + removal leaves bad settings in Xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440233 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs