Comment 2 for bug 365906

But as far as I know ATI dropped support for x1*** cards and you cannot use fglrx driver. I have x1600, and I have the same problem.

I did a completely fresh install of 9.04 and there is nothing coming up in the Hardware Drivers but in 8.10 it used to find that there is a proprietary driver available for my card.

Just out of curiosity I installed xorg-driver-fglrx and got exactly the same problems as you describe.

So, I think to make your X work you need to use an opensource driver and install xserver-xorg-video-radeon package. Then copy your x.org from backup (nothing should say 'fglrx' there), reboot and you should be fine.

Bryce, here you have my lspci if it helps.