Comment 8 for bug 1075035

I've installed 12.04, updated it, and tried installing the 12.11 beta driver form the link in #6. In case I did something wrong, here are my steps: 1. Download and extract the file. 2 In the directory of the extracted file, I ran sudo sh file.run
The installer program came up, but it only returns the message "Your graphics adapter is not supported by this driver. Installation will not proceed."
I tried building an Ubuntu package for the driver but that also failed.

I haven't yet tried the workaround in bug #1058040 that involves downgrading X.Org, but it seems like any attempts to run a newer driver on 12.10 fail for me.

With the open-source drivers my previously whisper-quiet desktop computer sounds like a jet engine when playing a video full-screen, so I think I'm going to have to either go back to 12.04 or update my graphics card. (I'd been meaning to do the latter anyway - the firestream card isn't really appropriate for what I use it for.)