ATI graphics support?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I heard some time ago that ATI would free their drivers.
> How is it going on?
> How is the current ATI support in Xorg?
> Is it now better to choose an ATI device over an nVidia one if running 
> ubuntu 8.04 and the future releases?

Hi,

The development of the ATI driver is going very slowly, work on 3D, 2D
and video acceleration only started a few weeks ago.

See the projetc's page there:

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

So the short answer: the ATI might be ready/mature in a year if they
keep working hard and steadily, but right now Nvidia is still the only
practical/realistic choice for "gaming" add-on 3D cards.

--
Vince, impatient to see a mature ATI driver...