Comment 93 for bug 313027

I was running Desktop 8.04 on my Lenovo T60 with a an ATI Radeon X1300. I upgraded to Desktop 8.10 in hopes of moving up to Desktop 9.04. Luckily the Upgrade Manager warned me that no 3d support is available for 9.04 - i.e. AMD has not released a usable, proprietary, binary driver to support my hardware. For me this does several things:

* Stops me from upgrading to 9.04.
* Requires that I not purchase AMD/ATI hardware _ever_ again (their support for their hardware under Linux has been simply horrible the entire time I've owned this laptop).
* And, to continue my amazement at the piss-poor PR that AMD/ATI creates for Linux distros and hardware manufacturers everywhere.

My laptop might be 3-year-old technology, but it's much more than capable. The problem is that laptop hardware that's 3-years old is no longer obsolete, but according to ATI it's not worth supporting (i.e., my X1300). Best of luck Ubuntu to applying whatever pressure you can. ATI continues their phenomenal ball-dropping. It's not like I'm on some exotic piece of equipment using some exotic OS - they just _simply don't get it_

Many thanks and best of luck.