I haven't had much problems getting the ATI driver up and running on several distros I had running on my old laptop (with a mobility 9600 card)..
Now I've got a new lappy, with a 9700 card, FedoraCore 4 (64 bit version) downloading, and there's appearantly a new version of the ATI driver out... so I guess I'll have to see how this goes!!! :p
oh.. btw: I wouldn't recommend trying to run live from a CD to see if your card is supported, as almost every distro I tried that, failed to get the drivers working (even though I did when installing it to HD)..
Now I've got a new lappy, with a 9700 card, FedoraCore 4 (64 bit version) downloading, and there's appearantly a new version of the ATI driver out... so I guess I'll have to see how this goes!!! :p
oh.. btw: I wouldn't recommend trying to run live from a CD to see if your card is supported, as almost every distro I tried that, failed to get the drivers working (even though I did when installing it to HD)..