Comment 5 for bug 374202

I do hope someone can find a work-around for this issue, because I'm totally stuck without it -- unless I can revert to Hardy, I cannot run the accelerated 3d graphics on my ATI X1200 Radeon chipset, and that means I cannot edit or watch videos, cannot use youTube and cannot use GoogleEarth, and because the RT kernels are not supported by Jaunty I am also unable to use the laptop for audio recording or jackd-based music composition tools of the Ubuntu-Studio. Because AMD has stranded all X1200 users by dropping support in the xorg-fglrx, the situation is not likely to improve and the ONLY solution is to revert to the last known-good Ubuntu-Studio for this hardware, 8.04.

But to do so requires a complete re-install and I do not have the resources to backup my 60GB of work files :( so I can wipe the entire disk, and besides, given that Mandriva is able to read the partition table just fine, there should be no NEED to re-partition the entire drive to install Ubuntu, we SHOULD be permitted to simply install into the root/boot partitions leaving the user-space /home partition untouched. That is the whole point of having partitions, isn't it? ;)

Anyway, I don't mean to nag, but for my particular case this is an urgent issue, a complete showstopper.