artik, I really think a lot of the blame (at least half?) belongs with the xorg devs. Fglrx worked great for me on intrepid. It wasn't until they improved X that the incompatibility issues began.  I wouldn't be surprised if the devs are so excited by the prospect of finally being able to code their own drivers up to industry standards (since ati/amd opened their sources) that there just isn't as much interest in getting the proprietary drivers to work. --- On Tue, 8/31/10, artik