The "wishlist" can be marked in the Importance column by the package owners, so no need to close this. Furthermore, this should stay open as long as the support is not in the open source driver (xserver-xorg- video-ati), whether or not there are closed drivers installed by default.
The proprietary drivers won't be used by default in feisty, as it was decided recently. The decision might change for feisty+1, but probably only so that it affects the newest Radeons (X1300 - X1950 or newer). Those don't have even 2D support out-of-the-box because ATI/AMD has not allowed the already-written 2D driver to be published (written under NDA). Meanwhile, anyone purchasing new hardware should consider Intel's offerings and Intel's integrated graphics (GMA 950, GMA X3000), to which open source drivers are developed together with the vendor and the community. It could also be hoped that ATI would change its policies now that it was acquired by AMD. -- direct rendering missing on ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M https://launchpad.net/bugs/36314 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
