I do have a radeon 7000 and i would like to find drivers. apparently ati does not have anything for that model. i tried to install the fglrx-glc22-4.1.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm but no luck.
i am running woody.
any ideas?

I'm also having problems with debian and the ATI drivers. (Sorry about all the blabbering, but I'm trying to give as much info as possible.) I have a Radeon 9000 Pro, which is supported by the drivers. I installed the package on their site using Debian with no errors and ran fglrxconfig (which crashed the x until I changed the entry for the location of the video card from PCI:1:0:1 to PCI:1:0:0), but it acts like it isn't installed! modprobe fglrx can't find the module, the shortcut to the ATI control panel doesn't work, and fglrxinfo acts very strangely. When I access it as root (through su), it gives an error:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

but as a regular user, it gives:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2

which seems to be software emulation. I went through the readme from ati, also. What else could I do to get it working?

WoW!I've just found the ati control panel!!
I use madrake linux 9.2 and the file is /usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrol

Hope i helped ;-)

Try the Kanotix live cd.

Its the only one that gave 3d acc with my 8500.

If it works you could look at the settings or do a HD install.

Is there any specific reason you're using woody? if it were me (and feasable), I'd upgrade to sid. It's not unstable at all (broken package every once in a while, few and far between) and you get all the latest software to go with the latest hardware. Setting up your card is easy with X4.3

i can not make it work. i downloaded the drivers from ATI and followed the instructions. BUT when i type startx, i get a grey screen. People told me that this is a known problem with ATI radeon 9200 256 MB. SO i thought of upgrading the XFree86 from www.backports.org, still no luck. now i am thinking to upgrade to 4.4.0, but i can not find a repository. Anybody got any ideas?

tsitras, if you have the 7000 radeon, use 'radeon' in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 . For 3D acceleration, get the latest dri package at dri.sf.net .

sorry wrong, i got the 9200