And yet again no support for xorg-server 1.7. Damn you ATI! Opensource your drivers or start working on opensource radeon/radeonhd drivers, this shit is not bearable for someone who expects drivers to work with a couple months old xorg server.

Okay, I installed this new driver on my Dell laptop running Ubuntu 9.10. After I rebooted, the computer had a black screen. The new driver toasted xserver. I've tried reconfiguring and reinstalling, and I've had to settle for running in low resolution mode for the time being. Be careful! Just because ATI says this is ready for ubuntu 9.10, my bad experience tells me it may not be, at least not for all of us!

Yes, the solution is easy. Do not buy ATI/Laptops with ATI integrated graphics chip... This solution is known for several years :)

I installed it on my desktop (Radeon 4200 integrated graphics), and I have notice no problems at all. For M. Creamer above, try starting at a console login, and re-running the setup from there, I keep the installation file in my home directory for convenience because a x.org upgrade usually breaks my system. Just a quick sudo sh ati..... followed by a restart and I am back up and running.

Much better performance in this version over the last.

Hopefully this will address some stickt issues I have had with fglrx, Catalyst, and just about every Ubuntu release since 2008. The strange thing is that ti ran like clockwork on Mint, Sabayon, Mandriva, and Fedora. I'll try it but I'm not holding my breath.

thank M. Creamer. I had that in the past and now I was in doubt. Now I know I have to stay a long way from it. My next laptop will be one with an Nvidea card, seams Ati is faking Linux support as a selling point.

This sucks, do not install your machine will get slower (i tried myself) . Stick to the default driver from ubuntu 9.10 .

My machine couldn't possibly get any slower than it is right now. I've got Xorg zapping half my resources when I boot into a gnome session & about 35% when running in KDE. Is it worth it to just go and buy an Nvidia card?

In my expirence I´ve found that ATI Drivers does´nt support as good and weel/stable any linux Distro. I my point of view ATI only soport half/good windows drivers.
So, I suggest any one of you just, if u are Linux user, wait untill releases comes. Any way, its hard to configure Ati driver in Linux but it works in such a few distros.

I've had nothing but problems with the ATI driver and card since switching to Linux a month ago. I personally feel that a supplier of a product should not dictate my choice of operating system. I'm not really impressed with the support given to Linux.

Did AMD buy them for a tax break? Do it right or don't bother. I'll go elsewhere for my new cards in the other computers.