Garbled display and touchpad configuration

[ceco]

Ok folks I know everyone is busy but it's time to actually sit down and write a driver for the ATI Radeon card used in a lot of laptops. This has been a topic/bug in the forums since 2008 without being resolved and the work-arounds aren't working. The garbled display is really getting to be overwhelming and the symantic touchpad is not functional and this is been going on since Fedore 13 and Ubuntu 10. It seem Linux is turning into an Intel/Dell shop. I'm running on a Gateway netbook LT3101u CPU - AMD ATHLON 64 ATI Radeon graphic card.
+++ I am a simple user -- I'm not a developer or programmer by any means or form. So please Help us out.++++
I think I will have to figure out which modules are required for my laptop and remove the unused modules from being loaded at boot. Also when I'm using Firefox and hit a website with active content puff the desktop and display become garbled

 lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                    8720  1 
fat                    44848  1 vfat
fuse                   62289  3 
sunrpc                195388  1 
8021q                  18723  0 
garp                    6087  1 8021q
stp                     1951  1 garp
llc                     4716  2 garp,stp
ip6t_REJECT             4048  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6       7978  1 
nf_defrag_ipv6          9531  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_filter         1695  1 
ip6_tables             16850  1 ip6table_filter
snd_hda_codec_realtek   325262  1 
arc4                    1457  2 
ath9k                  91484  0 
snd_hda_intel          23694  2 
snd_hda_codec          80822  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6368  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                52438  0 
snd_seq_device          6001  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                78484  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
mac80211              234498  1 ath9k
ath9k_common            2633  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              272393  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
uvcvideo               54609  0 
snd_timer              19593  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
ath                    14564  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211              135850  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
acerhdf                 8945  0 
microcode              18117  0 
edac_core              40712  0 
videodev               63426  1 uvcvideo
snd                    62686  12 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
joydev                  9635  0 
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     6697  1 videodev
edac_mce_amd           13274  0 
serio_raw               4426  0 
k8temp                  3775  0 
r8169                  35525  0 
wmi                     9105  0 
sp5100_tco              5333  0 
soundcore               6299  1 snd
rfkill                 16552  1 cfg80211
snd_page_alloc          7431  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp                 24582  0 
mii                     4318  1 r8169
i2c_piix4              10526  0 
ipv6                  282108  27 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6
ata_generic             3675  0 
pata_acpi               3443  0 
usb_storage            45615  1 
uas                     7783  0 
pata_atiixp             4189  0 
video                  12432  0 
radeon                688160  2 
ttm                    55120  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         27515  1 radeon
drm                   187984  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            5014  1 radeon
i2c_core               25468  6 videodev,i2c_piix4,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
 
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ceco