kubuntu and ati proprietary driver

first off I don't know where to post this because it is solved now but I thought I would share my problem and solution because i've seen a lot of people with the same problem. So here is the situation, I installed kubuntu and everything went great. I noticed that my graphics was really sluggish especially the mouse movement. I've seen this before, usually the graphics driver, so went to install the proprietary ati driver through the additional drivers app. it downloaded and started the install and then errored out. Then I decided to go to the amd site and get the driver from their site. I installed the driver and rebooted. This is where everything went bad, system crashed to command prompt and no matter what I tried I couldn't get back to the desktop. So after trying everything I could find on the net about this situation I decided to reload. Then I tried to install the proprietary driver again through the additional drivers applet and again it failed. What i figured ou! t is even though it fails to install the driver it leaves the files in place that it could install and this is what is causing the system to crash. So you need to completely purge the driver, then after you purge the driver from the repos you can install the driver from the amd site. I did update my xorg but I don't know if this helped or not, would probably be a good idea to update before installing the driver. I'm thinking that the kubuntu team needs to take the ati driver package out of the repos, this is causing major havok for many people. So this is the fix that i've found to work.

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