What package(s) are needed to install ATI support ?

[John]

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

>I will check it, but these are hacks that mangle the configuration files.
>We need to have something fully integrated with Ubuntu/Debian and debconf
>otherwise users will lose the option to reconfigure X in the dpkg way.
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>I will be able to test the nvidia side, but not the ATI. Also afaik the
>ATI just replaces the driver shipped by xserver, so there is no need of
>any magic in it.
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My test machine has (old) ATI graphics, and I can filch for the exercise 
a 9200 SE (which is not supported for framebuffer in the kernel code 
Iwas looking at a while ago, 2.6.8 I think). I' intend to boor Knoppix 
on that box, to see what happens. It does not play nice with Woody.