I am trying to get OpenGL to run on my new installation of Fedora Core 4 but couldn't get it running, I did do the "yum" installation of fglrx (as advised on some unofficial FAQ website about it) but got simply nowhere with it. Any ideas?

For your information I have upgraded to the latest kernel but still have the original kernel of FC4 incase I needed it again.

I cannot give you a definitive answer, but it may be worth looking over on the DRI Project and over at Mesa, my card is an old ATI 7200 (SuSE sees it as a radeon QD) and the 3D and Open GL works fine on it.

This is the output from 3Ddiag on my machine. You said you are installing fglrx, is that the driver from ATI's website, if it is I didn't think that it supported either you card or mine.

Oh, this came from livna package repository for FC4 so I wasn't sure on exactly how to do this since this is the first time I had trouble getting 3D acceleration running under Linux.

As you can see I am a to Linux myself, I have only installed graphics accelerators on a 3 machines, one on debian and two on SuSE, the only one that I used the fglrx driver for has an ATI 9800 Pro sat in it.

As I am a registered owner of ATI products I got in touch with them to find out if they had drivers for my 7200, I got what would seem to be the standard unhelpfull e-mail to my query, basically stating that they don't have a propietry driver for this card and that they don't release thier drivers code to the open source community, but that they are willing to help if I was to try and develop a driver myself.

After that little bombshell they suggested looking on the DRI project and MESA, so that is where I went to get the driver for my card.

Don't get me wrong I would love to develop a driver for my card, but I am probably the worlds largest coding numpty so the chances are better that I develop a set of wings and fly to the moon in the next couple of minutes.