gnome-appearance-properties forces me to install fglrx for desktop effects, while they work fine with the free driver

[Martijn vdS]

I have an ATI Mobility X700, which works fine (in both 2D and 3D mode) with the free 'radeon' driver (I used it in gutsy, and it worked before I did a reinstall). But for some reason, gnome-appearance-properties wants to force me to install the non-free fglrx driver.

This is not desirable for several reasons: I'd like my machine to use as much free software as possible, and fglrx tends to be a bit less stable (in my experience).

So please, could you re-enable the "desktop effects" button(s) for my video card _without_ it requiring fglrx?

lspci-output for my video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:5653 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: 103c:0940
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at c8800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at c8820000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
  Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
  Device: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <4us
  Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
  Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
  Device: RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
  Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
  Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
  Link: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <2us
  Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
  Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16
 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
  Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug lacks details to be useful, what version of ubuntu do you use? the issue seems similar to bug #207957 which has been fixed in hardy this week, anyway that's a restricted-manager or jockey issue, reassigning