ATI driver experience

[Temlakos]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm purchasing a new notebook.  It looks like ATI is about the only display
> choice these days.  I see there are driver packages a livna, including
> x86_64.
> 
> Anyone with recent experience with ATI on Linux?  Works reasonably well? 
> Hotkey switching for external display and tv-out supported OK?  
> 

I've got an ATI card on my Gateway Performance 1000XL. I routinely 
install the kernel-module-fglrx package whenever a new kernel comes out. 
I have yet to use any of the special features, though, so perhaps my 
experience isn't typical. But at least I haven't had a problem 
displaying things.

Temlakos