Según acabo de mirar ahora (30 de Octubre del 2007, 9:33 AM), parece que ya estan los drivers oficialmente
Aqui enlaces:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run
Mas info:
"New Features
This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux driver introduces the following new features:
* Support for Accelerated Indirect Rendering (AIGLX)
* Support for X.org version 7.3
* Products older than Radeon™ HD 2x00 are now supported after being enabled only for testing in 8.41.7
* A new 3D user interface is now avaialble in the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center-Linux Edition. The new interface allows for the setting of Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, and VSync. Included on the new 3D interface are static preview images showing the visual effects of the different 3D settings "
"Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
* There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28558
* The display may go blank with clone/dual/horizontal mode configured or switching VT on systems containing an ATI Radeon 9800 XT product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29574
* An error message appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh. A topic number is not available for this issue
* Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue
For further information and general help on driver or so."
Salu2
P.D: Vaya por dios... ahora parece que los drivers estos no son los buenos.
Según la web de Guia Ubuntu (
http://www.guia-ubuntu.org/index.php?title=Aceleraci%C3%B3n_gr%C3%A1fica_ATI):
"Recientemente han sido liberadas nuevas versiones del driver privativo de ATI (8.41, 8.42...) algunas de las cuales soportaban numerosas características que tanto esperaban los usuarios de GNU/Linux como la compatibilidad con el AIGLX (véase Compiz Fusion)
Sin embargo dichas versiones presentan muchos más problemas que soluciones en las versiones actuales de Ubuntu. Estos problemas van desde un rendimiento pobre tanto de gráficos como usando el AIGLX hasta incluso conflictos con el servidor gráfico X, es decir, quedarse sin escritorio (al menos en las versiones inferiores a la 7.10).
Es más, hasta la propia ATI aclara en las notas de lanzamiento de dichos drivers que es más recomendable usar la versión 8.40:
[ì]AMD recommends that this release of the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver not be used for distribution packages.
Distributors should continue to use the AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.40.4[/i]
Además según foros ingleses dichas versiones son "una especie de lanzamientos de prueba" que darán lugar a una versión más estable, la 8.43 para navidades"
Osea... que, después de esperar a que ATI sacase la 8.42... ahora nos toca esperar la 8.43