ATI gets their papers so to speak. Apparently, there is a quite sizable petition floating around demanding that ATI take some sort of action to improve the available Linux drivers.

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“A new petition that may be interesting for Linux gamers has started at petitiononline.com. It demands better Linux driver support by ATI, especially for recent chipsets, including mobile chips.
Ati’s driver support for Linux at the moment is better than the years before, but the driver performance is far beyond the windows drivers. There is no 64-bit support, yet and the installation isn’t as easy as we expect. So John Altobelli set up a petition for all the dissatisfied ati-customers out there. He states, without telling in a roundabout way that the petition-signers won’t buy any ATI-video card until the drivers have been improved. As an alternative he points out the publication of specifications, so the open source community can develop drivers on their own.”