Comment 9 for bug 258025

I updated the description.
I just tried the xubuntu live-cd which recognizes it's ati from the start.

So some confession to do:
When I first installed xubuntu, the litte effect that there were looked crap and often distorted which did not seem right (being xubuntu has nothing to do with it imo). Then I've been trying to find ati drivers, I first I was trying ati installers and restricted drivers till I found the help,ubuntu.com page (see first post) which said to use the opensource driver. I followed that howto, but was getting weird errors doing aticonfig (Segmentation Faults), I tried reinstalling the xserver-xorg-video-ati, had to remove it completely and install it again. Then it worked! Still looked the same so added that irqpoll boot option and DRI (.drirc file) in the hope to be have 3D Acceleration.

So actually the problem is, as the title says, out-of-the-box 3D acceleration on the card.
Now I'm not sure this is being used with or without the "irqpoll" boot option, so maybe those to logs are to be compared (original-Xorg.0.log)

Hope this clears it up a little ...

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with irqpoll enabled and standard xorg.conf
$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes