Proprietary drivers - how?

[Peter_S]

Playing with ubuntu 11 in a VM to get a feel for it. It was working OK but no transparency or fancy 3D goodness. So I thought I'd install the proprietary driver........................

Cannot for the life of me work out how to install the proprietary driver for the M8900 Firepro graphics card.

I can find the hardware driver icon and it tells me I have no proprietary drivers installed, no options to install one either. I have the fglrx file from Ati, cant seem to run it.

I've spent all afternoon on google and the ubuntu forums (which I find largely baffling) with no joy; I cant get the -ing thing to work properly.

Anyone know of or can do a "muppets guide" to what should be a
simple task?

(M6600 Win 7, Virtual box VM Ubuntu 11 / PinguyOS)

Cheers

 

[Peter_S]

Thanks for the explanations (facepalms self for not even thinking about the problem that way......................)

Understanding creeps up a notch until the next time!