Okay, got x and gnome installed... and I'm trying to install the proprietary driver from ati. I downloaded the .run file from ati, and the installer has an error loading the kernel module.

Here is the output from the installer

[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12.5/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12.5'
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `__fgl_agp_init':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:8173: warning: `pm_register' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pm.h:106)
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `__fgl_agp_cleanup':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:8183: warning: `pm_unregister_all' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pm.h:116)
...

[More compilation stuff- cut off to not make thread to long]...


deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:568)
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_agpgart/fglrx_agp.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_agpgart/fglrx_agp.mod.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_agpgart/fglrx_agp.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12.5'
AGPGART build succeeded with return value 0
finished compiling for fglrx_agp
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
==============================
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel modules
failed.
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to install compiled kernel module


Any help anyone could give would be appreciated.

Do you have the kernel sources for your kernel version installed?

It's been a while since I've used LFS, but I always had problems with the fglrx driver until I installed GCC-3.3 and used it to compile it. I'm pretty sure that was the main step I needed to take to get hardware acceleration on my Radeon 8500. I don't think it ever worked for me using GCC-3.4.

Check the section of the BLFS book on compiling GCC-3.3 (I also needed it instead of GCC-3.4 when I built OpenOffice.org)

i have problem with ati card too.
it's radeon 9550.
the problem is that i can't get hw acceleration. drivers seem to install w/o any errors, but still mesa is used for opengl.
on my fc3 all works good.
i tried some how-to's but it didn't help=(

I've started working on LFS again, and sadly I could not get hardware acceleration for my r200 card (radeon 8500) with the fglrx driver, even when having the gcc-3.3 libs installed. The dri seems to give me good performance for it though. For radeon9500 (I think it's r300) the cvs dri, cvs Mesa, and cvs X are supposed to give good performance. I think you have to already have XOrg-6.9 to build and install the cvs X on top of it (and then to build Mesa and drm). I couldn't compile cvs XOrg with Xorg-6.8.2, but I recall seeing something on the dri website saying the drivers are compatible with 6.9.

http://dri.freedesktop.org

The build instructions are dated though. For instance, the buildtools patch they have on the site fails when I try to apply it to the cvs source.

The error information is not provided, and it is impossible to help.

I still believe the flgrx drive has better performance than the mesa/dri. But I use nvidia.