When I bought this laptop, because wanted to have dedicated vga controller. I knew that it was shipped with ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1300 graphic adapter, it’s my challenge to install the driver and get it worked properly as it has some issue in installing process by (end) user that day.

Today, no more pain when we do that trough easy way , until you are in a situation that need to have newest version. That’s your time to try this way (that i usually do, even i don’t really need those new features anyway, just for having fun! ).

ATI Catalyst is a utility software driver package for several ATI products for several operating systems. The Catalyst software was instituted after the release of the Radeon 8500. This driver development paradigm at ATI promised monthly driver updates which included performance enhancements, bug fixes, and new features. As of 2007, the Catalyst driver package typically included ATI Catalyst Control Center; an interface for manipulating many of the hardware’s functions, such as 3D settings, monitor controls, video options, among other things. It also offered a small 3D preview, allowing the user to see how changes to the graphics settings affected the quality of the rendered image.

See the release note to know new features in this ATI Catalyst™ 9.1 Proprietary Linux Display Driver. » Read more: ATI Catalyst™ 9.1 on openSUSE 11.1