yes another ATI thread

i would advise anyone thinking of getting one of these to reconsider. i never had this issue with any nvidia card i have used.

i have only had slight luck with drivers on mandrake 10. no luck at all on suse 9.1

what i have done
first downloaded make and gcc. suse didnt ship with these, my one beef with suse...so far
next i downloaded the kernel and kernel sources
kernel-default-2.6.4-52.i586.rpm
kernel-source-2.6.4-52.i586.rpm

if those are the wrong combo, tell me! i dont think there is anything else i need.

i downloaded and installed the driver from ATI's site

then i su'ed as root and did the make.sh
and make_install.sh

i then ran fglrxconfig

i do have VESA ability, but its not that great.

fglrxinfo gives me this, but i have no idea what that really means
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.4 Mesa 5.0.2)


is there ANYONE who has a working 9600SE on suse 9.1? or any new linux distro

should i change kernel versions? what packages do i need, if i need to change? if my kernel and kernel sources are wrong what do i need? is there any other files i need?
should i downgrade to 2.4.x, i dont really want to but i am not wasting $100 that i spent for the SOB?

like i said next to a win modem i cant think of anything worse.

i do get this when i run make.sh
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
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/2.6.4-52-default/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52'
CHK include/linux/version.h
*** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
*** inconsistencies
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
CC scripts/empty.o
MKELF scripts/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/modpost
CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
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
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/i7505-agp.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:244: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:245: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:246: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:247: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2308: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2309: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2326: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2327: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2333: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2334: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2340: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2341: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2349: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2350: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.