radeon and X: was X won't start

["Mark Healey" <deblist@healeyonline.com>]

After asking about why my X won't start I got a couple of responses
indicating that it is probably the video driver.

Appearantly:

1)the vesa driver doesn't work well
2)the ones from ATI
     A)are crap
     B) intended for Mandrake
     c) available as binaries only
3)a dedicated debian one isn't available yet.

Is the above correct.

If it isn't, any recommendations?

I plan to use this for a Mame cab with Pydance.  I bought the card
because, since I needed tv out I might as well use it for TV in the
bedroom (and try freevo).

I'm willing to give up on this card for a while.  What I'd like is a
card that supports lots of unusual and low resolutions.  I don't
really need 3D accel.

TIA.

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ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon
	Broadcom 4401 onboard nic
	with static IP Address
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card.
	Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor