I've recently downloaded ATI's new Radeon 8500 drivers for my 8500 128 Mb (non-LE).
Driver says RADEON R200 QL (Radeon 8500 LE) (LE/non-LE shouldn'tbe a problem I think).
Everything works great, many OpenGL apps no longer have pixel-delocations (and massive texture spikes/invisible areas). Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem in clearing the buffer??. Linux (SUSE 8.2) freezes if I exit many 3D games and apps, some won't even start, and TuxRacer freezes if any key is pressed on the 'press any key' initial screen. Sometimes, 3D apps exit with error stating a FireGL problem in clearing the buffer. There appear to be no other problems while 3D apps are running, only when being destroyed.
EXAMPLE - blender-sample (fails at start)
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Created window
Mapped window
GHOST_EventPrinter:

rocessEvent, time: 160, type: GHOST_kEventWindowSize
GHOST_EventPrinter:

rocessEvent, time: 451, type: GHOST_kEventWindowActivate
GHOST_EventPrinter:

rocessEvent, time: 451, type: GHOST_kEventWindowSize
FATAL: fglX11FreeBuffer: firegl_FreeBuffer() failed!
/usr/bin/blender-sample: line 2: 3476 Trace/breakpoint trap /usr/bin/blender /usr/share/doc/packages/blender/geeko.blend
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When Linux OS freezes, no error messages are found in any logs (fail, warn, messages)
Anybody else with this issue?
flgrxconfig was default pretty much the whole way through, save for monitor settings.
Thanks,
-XE