Comment 72 for bug 494699

Butt, thanks for sharing your opinion. Well, I've thought of preparing a guide on how to deal with Ati card on Linux. However, I found out that the only step I can recommend is just to use Ubuntu 10.04 (or at least when it will become stable).
When I was saying about open-source drivers, I meant 'radeon' and 'radeonhd', which, as far as I know (and that's somehow not surprising at all) are on Ubuntu CD, and in fact everything works out of the box. If someone isn't satisfied with those drivers, he can get the proprietary drivers easily, by the time of release of Ubuntu 10.04 they will be working very well, as it was with almost every previous Ubuntu release.

I do share Tim's hope, that open-source drivers will get as good as it is possible. I am also avoiding any form of closed software, and I really like the fact ATI shares with hardware specs.
I must agree part of users DO have trouble with those cards, but in my opinion there is nobody to blame - Ati supports open-source drivers, and they do try making their drivers as good as they can, open-source drivers' developers are doing their best; I think everything is on a very good way to improve this - not really satisfying - situation.

By the way, I am really surprised I am one among the very few who do not complain about open-source drivers, I think you may just have a fake impression of everyone complaining, for only the ones who have some trouble with them write about it in the net. In fact I know a lot of users who doesn't have any problems with open-source drivers.
And, in fact, as they are working well, Ubuntu developers DID put them in the operating system (which DID solve the problem, at least in my case) (if you don't mean some other open-source drivers, I have X's 'radeon' on my mind :) [they are open-source, aren't they?] ).