Seriously, since ATI have no power over them we have not seen a descent driver update in ages. Where's the "black window" bug fix? Where's the fix for the 8800? WTF.
nvidia are expected to release new drivers within a couple of weeks.
They are wanting to really show off QuakeWars under linux so making sure any annoying things are sorted
Also with the recent Xorg revbump (7.3 now) the drivers are broken (gentoo ~ARCH and experimenters are effected by this atm) and nvidia have stated that the ABI update is in new drivers.