Ok I'm a bit of a noob and i need some help. I've used nvidia linux drivers in the past but need some help. I have a computer taht I want to put FC5 on but it has a ATI 7500 in it. Does Fedora core 5 come with a accelerated driver for this card? if not how do you get\install it? If you do tell me please make extreamly clear step by step insrtuctions.... anyway thanx for all help

Ouch, that's a somewhat old card..well Fedora 5 does not (I wonder if any distribution does) come with 3d-accelarated drivers; it includes the driver "ati" that probably works for your card, but that's software rendering. For hardware rendering, you'll need 3rd-party non-opensource drivers; ATI has fglrx-drivers but they work for radeon 8500 and newer only (meaning, I haven't heard of anyone who would have got them work with cards below 8500).

But, again there is hope I don't know how much but you can find out. The MESA rendering offers 3d drivers that could work with your card. They're not as good as fglrx is, but then again, probably the only way for your card. nVidia cards work better with Linux, that's my opinion..ATI's drivers are awful (I have 9200SE and just got lucky to get 3d-accel with fglrx; though then my screen went dead bright, and nobody knows why).

But google for the MESA project and read more about there, find out if your card could do with the drivers and so on. There is more help available..

I googled MESA but got so many results I was unable to locate that officeial page. I installed linux on that computer and teh built in drivers do work, but i require 3d hardware acceleration. So if you could pint me in the right direction that would be great..... P.S. I was diging around my base ment and I found an Nvidia Vanta LT.. now i know this in an anciant carn but is it newer that the Radeon 7500? and do the Nvidia drivers support it?.... thanx again for your help

I found a link on the ATI website that poited me here http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ I've red over the page but i have no idea how to compile for CVS or what ever. ALso is there a .rpm for this that would work with my fedora core 5 instilation? and last of all has anyone had any luck with this?