[H] Linux old ATI video card support

[Winterlight]

I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still 
works well. I bought it on Ebay used for not much 
money a long time ago. The only upgrade I did was 
to install an old small SSD in it.  The T60 has a 
chipset that only handles 3GB of RAM because it's 
native OS is XP. In it's day it was considered 
high end. A large wide screen, 2.2 dual core with ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400.

 The ATI video is now a problem. The  ATI video 
card creates a problem when it comes to OS 
upgrades because there is absolutely no drivers 
for it in Win7 and above. All you can get is 
generic MS video card driver which kills a lot of 
the usefulness of the laptop. If it wasn't for 
the video card I could update the OS and find a 
use for it.  I am thinking about wiping the drive 
and installing some flavor of Linux...would Linux 
have better support for the ATI card ?