just your friendly linux noob, heres the story, i have red hat 9 standard, ati radeon 9800 pro. What i need to know it what xfree86 version red hat 9 has on it so i know what driver package to dl off the ati site ...any help is appreciated. ty.

From what I have gathered, ATI doesn't have an official driver for Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, and 9800's yet. There are some custom made ones (search for it in the forum - it's some German guys website) but it requires all this expertise linux stuff.
I personally gave up trying to install my Radeon 9700 Pro in Linux and just use Windows XP when I need the graphics power (i.e. games).

Good luck and I'm sure others will tell you more.

I thought ATI has a driver for Radeon 9800 Pro. http://www.ati.com -> Drivers & Software -> choose Linux and then any driver you like, they are all the same. Just make sure you choose the one which has same XFree86 version as you do. RH9 has 4.3.0 I think.

Read the installation tips. They will help you a lot.

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 pro on Suse 8.2. My monitor is a Sony 20 SEII. I'm running kernel 2.4.20. My mainboard is a Tyan S2468 Thunder K7X with two AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processors. I'm trying to use the fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm driver downloaded from ATI and I use the fglrxconfig utility to build the XF86Config file. Oh yeah, I'm running XFree86 4.3.0.

Here are the problems I've had:

1) If I run X (I use KDE) with the unmodified XF86Config then I get a dark screen.

2) If I set Option "no_dri" to "yes" then I get a "scrambled" screen

Any ideas?

Well they recently came out with the new drivers for the Radeon Series card. Problem is that they still don't work (not for me and 100's of other people on here). I followed the installation instructions but it's no use for my primitive Microsoft brain. Can someone make a simple Mandrake RPM package that'll install itself? Thanks

What symptoms do you have?

It might be more useful for all of us if we listed our kernel version, distribution, monitor, ati driver we downloaded and XF86Config file. Unfortunately saying that it "doesn't work" gives us no new information. Each of us has, depending on the amount of Linux/kernel customization we've done, a veritable galaxy of hardware and software differences and, perhaps in part, our lack of description of our problems and how we solved them means that we'll all stumble along until some distribution vendor solves the problems for us--at our cost.

I suggest you try getting it to work without using the fglrxconfig utility. Try following the info on this link http://space.virgilio.it/flavio.stan...installer.html even if it's Debian specific. At least it works good for me. BTW: I use Debian sid, XFree86 4.3, Linux 2.4.20 - 2.4.22 and the card is a Radeon 8500 (same installation procedure of fglrx on all Radeon's though).