Linux ATI drivers?

[freebooter]

How bad are the ATI drivers for linux these days?

I had an ATI card a few years ago and had endless problems. Eventually I gave up and bought nvidia. Since replaced with another nvidia card and have had zero problems with both of them.

I am currently looking at upgrading my gpu and all the best cards at my price level seem to be ATI I had a quick look on the ubuntu forums and inevitably there were lots of threads by people having problems with ATI drivers but there are always people with problems

I have seen people recommending sticking to the oss drivers but I really want to be able to set colour adjustments through the driver control settings. The nvidia proprietary drivers have a very good control centre.

thanks

 

[freebooter]

Thanks for the replies. It looks like I will need to stay with nvidia. I am looking for a 2nd hand card of middling performance that only needs one power connector and something like a Radeon 5770 would suit me perfectly and seem to go for a good price and fairly regularly on the For Sale board. The nvidia equivalent is probably a gts450 or gtx550 which don't seem as common and are more expensive