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[Jouko Orava <joorava@xxxxxx>]

Robert Hooker is correct. I just did not register you have a Radeon
9000.

The latest ATI Catalyst drivers that support ATI Radeon 9000 is Catalyst 9.3 (= fglrx 8.591),
which does not support xorg 1.7 used in Jaunty. Thus, your options are unfortunately very limited.

If you really need the features only found in the proprietary drivers, you should go back to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
and use fglrx 8.591 or earlier; later drivers do not support your hardware, and later releases use a version
of xorg not supported by fglrx. (Then, if you try different drivers without purging the others first, conflicts may
cause a similarly garbled display. My earlier instructions here can be used to resolve those.)

However, you'll probably be better off running the open source radeon driver, using xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
You'll need to install packages xserver-xorg-video-ati, xserver-xorg-video-r128, xserver-xorg-video-mach64, and
xserver-xorg-video-radeon. Always fully purge the older versions (including all packages related to the proprietary driver)
before installing new ones, and always install the same version of the four packages.
Reboot to try the new driver, to make sure the correct kernel modules are loaded.
For latest radeon packages, see the xorg-edgers PPA at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa .
For configuration (/etc/X11/xorg.conf), see the example at end of http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon .
Note that ATI Radeon 9000 uses the r300 chipset (rv350 or M10, see http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300_Portal ).
For supported features, check the R300 column at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature .

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Desktop won't render (garbled) - after installing ATI Radeon Catalyst Control Center - Undefined symbol atiddxAbiDixLookupPrivate
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