Quote - I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't just get a new card.  It's 5 years old, but it's a good card and it works perfectly fine in XP.  But Vista, which is now dual-booted on here, doesn't like it too much either, and I'm pretty sure the problem there is the driver, too.  That's probably fixable, though.  And I'll keep working on getting the linux driver to work.  It seems a bit silly to get a new card not because I need a better GPU but because I can't get a driver for it.

I'm sure I found a list somewhere of tested drivers that worked with Linux.  Sorry, I don't have the link handy.  You may want to look it up before you decide to buy one. 

I think the newer ATI card drivers are on there.  I had an older ATI card that didn't work.  I believe the 9700's (Like cog metioned) were tested to work. 

I think the list may have been on the blender home site somewhere.

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