As Jérôme announced, the Avivo driver for newer ATI chips is now available. Unfortunately we've all been very busy, so it's taken literally months longer than we'd hoped. But we have a driver that, while having no acceleration, is able to set modes on VGA, DVI, and laptop panels: all it really lacks is TV out support, and support for the complete set of models. Pretty cool stuff. Any help we can get is appreciated, so if you've done X or driver development, or are interested in same, please get in touch via xorg@lists.freedesktop.org. It's completely FLOSS, licensed under the GPL.

Part of the reason I've been so busy is trying to arrange the X Developers' Summit in Cambridge, UK, around the 10th of September. But more on that later.