Texasone, another option you might try for the ATI driver is to install envyng from snaptic package manager and allow envy to select and configure xorg.conf. I use envy to set up some rather old...
The ubuntu forum has an excellent how-to on setup for ati/radion drivers and help for setup of compiz/fusion. I spent several hours getting an ATI 9600 board configured and the how-to was very...
You might look at www.forumubuntusoftware.com for a look at a rehash of ubuntu known as ultimate edition.There are several options there to build your own distro and most of the tools you would need...
Although I started out with Berkley UNIX in the 70's, I have used several distro's of *NIX since then. At present, I use a rehash of Ubuntu 8.04 known as Ultimate Edition 1.8. I like the distro for...