Getting ATI Radeon 9500 PRO to work properly on Karmic 9.10

I have an old pc with an ATI Radeon 9500 PRO and Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. I have experienced very slow flash videos, painful loading of wine programs and changing gtk2.0 themes. I have found a solution browsing the internet and unfortunately I cannot give the author the right credits at this moment ( I hope to do it soon editing this post). This solution works like a charm for me:

1. Run a terminal and type: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop to shut down Gnome.
2. Log in with your username and password
3. Now type sudo Xorg -configure to create xorg.conf.new in your home.
4. Type command sudo gdm stop to restart Gnome.
5. sudo gedit xorg.conf.new
6. Add these lines in Section "Device":

• Option "AGPmode" "1"
• Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
• Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
• Option "AccelDFS" "true"
• Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
• Option "EnableDepthMoves" "true"

7. Save as /etc/X11/xorg.conf
8. Repeat steps 1 and 4 to restart Gnome.

I discussed the matter at Ubuntu Forums.

Best regards.