So after a long time of SUSE use i went back to my Ubuntu install when i was reminded by Sohil about the 3D effects which were working on Ubuntu 7.04 with the new ATI 8.42.3 drivers and well it was like a challenge for me to enable those in my install. So here i present you the way to enable those in your Ubuntu 7.10 fresh install with the ATI 8.42.3 drivers, just install the xserver-xgl package sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl and reboot enjoy