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there are plenty knowledgeable and skilled dudes in the community - skilled enough to write a driver, but ATi is in no hurry releasing the specifications of it's gcards. And without knowing how exactly does it work no one is able to write any driver...

well, the prices are cheap 'cos the production cost is cheap :-))) 50 years ago computers were waaaaay more expensive and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less efficient... 20 years ago computers were also incredibly fast, and the famous Bill Gates' "640k should be enough for everyone" looks especially funny now, when we have computers that are gazillion times faster than those used to control the flight to the Moon and we complain about lagging text editor...

i would if i could - my laptop ain't new, it's my bros so i didn't have much of a choice here...)))

blame it on ATi :-))) we're lucky they support linux at all - few years back none of the new ATi gcards ever worked - only older crap... Something tells me they won't upgrade their driver to support direct rendering, so no 3d-effects and games on this one.

if you're talking about ATi Mobility x1600/x2500 which is what i myself got - it works. Not perfectly though, no direct rendering (so no compiz) but at least i have a full resolution.

i had this issue, strangely enough it appeared after i installed some packages related to iPod management. try ctrl+alt+F1 (switch into console), login, do apt-cache search for ipod stuff (just type "apt-cache search ipod") and then "sudo apt-get remove ..." with every package you will find in the list (e. g. "sudo apt-get remove ipod ipodlib libgtkpod..."). hope this helps.

maybe it's not the case, but this is how i made for myself - i assigned "XkbLayouts" to "us,ru", "XkbVariants" to ",winkeys", "XkbOptions" to "grp:alt_shift_toggle" (to be able to switch with alt-shift, i'm a Windows refugee :-))) and install kxneur (automatic layout switcher) and set it to manual mode (so it doesn't switch but still shows what layout i have right now). Try it, could prove useful. EDIT oh and turned off KDE native layout switching (since ctl+alt+something is not exactly what i a...

just edit xorg.conf to go back to vesa and then reinstall the driver... if you use ubuntu - sudo apt-get reinstall xorg-driver-fglrx && sudo dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xorg if some other - go to ATI site, download their package, install it and then tweak xorg.conf EDIT oh and if you're using ubuntu - you can install "restricted drivers manager" which will do everything for you

I'm having the same issue and would like to report about the problem in a more readable form than the previous post :-)) I'm running Kubuntu 7.10 with KDE 4 on top of it. As you might know, KDE 4 uses Dolphin for file management by default. Under KDE 3 i was able to add additional actions to the context menu by adding ".desktop" files to the "/usr/share/apps/dolphin/servicemenus" (or somewhere else, i don't remember). It works flawlessly under KDE 3.x but it does not work in Dolphin for KDE 4. A...