Karmic Koala and ATI Graphics Driver

Yesterday, my Ubuntu 9.10 machine suddenly started complaining about display settings at startup. This happened after a recent update to Karmic koala. Because of this issue, my X would default to low resolution settings.

I looked it up on the net and found out that there support for some of the older ATI cards is missing in the latest official drivers. I have an ATI 2400 XT. After quite a bit of googling around, i found the solution. I had to install open-source drivers. The installation instructions were found here,
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Jaunty_Installation_Guide

Note: at the end of everything, if u r still facing issues, delete the xorg.conf file and reboot