I have an ATI 5650m and I've had 0 issues with 3D Acceleration in the past. I had to reinstall Ubuntu entirely, and now with the 12.6 drivers I get -

One or more tools required for installation cannot be found on the system

I can't seem to solve this issue.

I installed the FGLRX drivers through the "alternate command line" guide on the Ubuntu Wiki including the instructions for getting 3D support. They seem to install but I get an error with vainfo

 libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
 Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". libva:
 va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva: Trying to open
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so libva error:
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so init failed libva:
 va_openDriver() returns -1 vaInitialize failed with error code -1
 (unknown libva error),exit

I have tried help here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2014440

It's a bit frustrating as I can do basically nothing without 3D support. I can't use super + direction or super + w or even configure the Unity bar to be 32px.

If anyone could help I'd appreciate that.