Proprietary ati drivers for an old computer

Hello all, as this is my first post; I've recently been getting a newly acquired, but fairly old laptop (a Dell latitude d600) set up with arch linux, and have been going through all sorts of fun problems. I've been enjoying arch, and the very strange new experience of ratpoison, and the feeling of getting to work out so many problems with old hardware. One I'm pretty sure I don't quite have the expertise for however, is my video card.
As it is right now, for my card Radeon Mobility 9000 - rv250, I've installed the xf86-video-ati drivers. However, I'd like to have the proprietary drivers installed (I'll admit, mainly for playing minecraft), and after reading through the wiki, it seems the proprietary drivers no longer support my chipset. There seem to be packages in the AUR, namely catalyst-old, that may serve my purposes, but installing them has proved to be a bit of a headache. Also it's 4:30am here, and I'm just about done searching around for fixes. I assume it can be done, but I've so far been lacking in google-fu prowess/technical ability. Excuse me if I've missed something.
Thanks guys.

Afaik the proprietary drivers don't support those old cards anymore, they consider the open source drivers the "official" ones. You could of course install older versions of the driver, but trust me, you don't want to do that, they are 1. crap and 2. they don't support the most recent version of xorg, so you won't be happy with them no matter what you do.

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http://img269.imageshack.us/my.php?image=47492934.png
This is Dxdiag after i set other options than Switchable Graphics
http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error3yyt.png
http://img41.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error2k.png
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Error msg "This device cannot start. (Code 10)"
Message Edited by ceecookie on 06-22-2009 07:07 AM
Message Edited by ceecookie on 06-22-2009 07:08 AM
Message Edited by ceecookie on 06-22-2009 07:41 AM

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