I used the ATI 4.3.0-3.7.6 rpm drivers
I also used fglrx.rpm, km_fglrx.rpm I forced these drivers to install rpm -i --force <packages> rpm afterwards I did this though I had to do this in order for the drivers fully work with my Gigabyte 7NNPro2 nforce2 chipset motherboard: modprobe agpgart, modprobe fglrx, testgart, finally run fglrxconfig I did the basics instructions to where it said used XFree86.dga n all the way down to enable external AGP and y for that and the question after that finished it I ran updatedb. It started working smoothly so far I tested these games out ut2004 demo, ut2003 full version, Postal 2 share the pain demo, quake 3 demo. all of it runs awesome

Using my distrobution and kernel I had a very hard time getting it working right. 3D just didn't function. After looking around on the internet for a long time and starting my own thread on LQ, I finally got it working about as it ought to. The ATI control panel (and software overclocking) still doesn't work, but for my needs it does OK. Now that I know how to do it (a pretty long process) I can get it work pretty easily whenever I reinstall Mandrake (for whatever reason).

Here's the link to the forum with instructions on how to get it working under Mandrake 10 Official, 2.6.6 kernel:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178067

Beautiful video card! ATI is my choice for display adapters. This card works beautifully in Linux (after installing the fglrx drivers from the ATI website found at http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/...mp;submit=GO%21 ). Also, Mandrake detects the card out of the box, but I installed the ATI drivers anyway. If you do install the drivers from the ATI website, be sure to follow the directions EXACTLY. This is a great card for games or for 3d modeling and animation with Blender 3d (Blender is sweeeet).

ATI 9600 -- can't get 3d enabled no matter how hard i try. yanked it out and slapped in NVIDIA TI4200 from my old gamer. works great, 3d, open gl, etc.

Supported, though very poorly. Almost no options for TV output. ATI drivers perform very slowly compared to their Windows counterparts. The configuration isn't as complicated as some people make it out to be; the drivers are unsupported in kernel versions greater than 2.6.10, so be careful.

The card itself is snappy. If it were not for the crappy drivers, I would rejoice. Of course, today, there are better values, but back in 2004, there were no better cards for the price.

Go buy an Nvidia card. They actively support open-source operating systems, Linux and BSD alike. Save yourself a headache.

Crappy drivers. X occasionally locks up. I can't wait to get rid of this card.