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[Zhao Zheng <zhaozhengcn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bryan,

Thanks for the very quick reply. I have checked my install log. It looks like that it is saying it cannot find my kernel:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723/source ->
                 /usr/src/fglrx-8.723

DKMS: add Completed.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located, or you could install the linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic package.
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.723 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.723 from DKMS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
To know what --kernelsourcedir I could give, I checked man dkms. It says usually this kernel source is in /lib/modules/$kernel_version/build. However, I did not find this folder 'build' in my /lib/modules/2.6.31-14/ at all. I checked another kernel in my system. It has a build folder, but it is pointing to /usr/src/linux-hearders-2.6.32.22, not the one I would need for 2.6.31-14. In /usr/src there is no such folder. I am not sure if I can install this? The problem is, I cannot boot to the 2.6.32-22 kernel at all because I got only a black screen, even in recovery mode.

I tried to just copy the build folder from /lib/modules/2.6.32-22/build to the one of 2.6.31-14. Now I get a different error in the install log:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723/source ->
                 /usr/src/fglrx-8.723

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723/build; sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=2.6.31-14-generic --norootcheck....(bad exit status: 1)
0
0
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.723 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.723 from DKMS
------------------------------------------------------------------

So it now looks like dkms has problem when 'cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723/build'. I checked my folder there in /var/lib/dkms, there is only one single file dkms_dbversion. I thought maybe it is just too shy to make such a folder there. So I created the folders /fglrx/8.723/build in my /var/lib/dkms. Now the install log (/usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log) changed to:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Errors during DKMS module removal
Errors during DKMS module removal
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to add fglrx-8.723 to DKMS
----------------------------------------------------------------

It is just not very logical to me. It failed to remove old module. Apparently I don't have one. But it is still not installing a new one. So in the end I still cannot have a working driver. Strange thing is the Catalyst Control Center still works. Problems besides the lagging windows are: (1) I cannot activate advanced desktop effects; (2) I cannot start blender any more; (3) all the build in games cannot be started. For example:
-------------------------
zheng@zzdesk:~$ quadrapassel 
The program 'quadrapassel' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 27 error_code 1 request_code 136 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


zheng@zzdesk:~$ blender
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
Compiled with Python version 2.6.5.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  136 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  28
  Current serial number in output stream:  28
---------------------------------

I also checked my healthy 64-bit Karmic in another partition. It also
does not have the 'build' folder in /lib/modules/$kernel_version/. I
noticed that it has an additional folder fglrx in /lib/modules/. I tried
to copy this one into my Lucid partition. Nothing really changed, but
somehow this copied fglrx folder is deleted during the installation of
the new driver.

I also tried to use Synaptic. It always fails to install the fglrx. It always deletes the /etc/ati folder. So I have to make sure to at least copy something there to allow myself back into my system next time. A more interesting error message is:
-------------------------------------------
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
------------------------------------------

I then checked this file it has just mentioned. Then I was suggested to
do sudo apt-get install -f. Then I get the same error as above. Now I am
really confused. Still not able to install the driver, maybe more
precisely it is the 'kernel module'? Moreover, I still have the black
screen in the kernel 2.6.32-22. In addition, there is always a black
vertical strip on the right hand side of my screen that I cannot use. I
don't have this in my healthy karmic.

Sorry for this really long post. I am relatively new and cannot really
make sense of what I see. So maybe just listing what I have done would
help make the problem clear to the more experienced.

-- 
fglrx fails at startup because of missing  amdpcsdb.default + removal leaves bad settings in Xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440233
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