I think this particular bug can be closed. We're just stuck with using ATI's proprietary fglrx driver on laptops with recent ATI chipsets, as supplied in Dapper by an appropriate linux-restricted-modules-* package, along with xorg-driver-fglrx and fgrlx-control.
-- New ATI chipset not recognized (PCI 1002:71c4) [also radeonfb] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
