Hey, i finally decided to install linux so i chose the newest version of mandrake. everything pretty much went fine with the installation but when it came to the hardware devices it always came up with an error for it.

my video card is a radeon 9800 pro 128 mb

any help would be greatly appreciated

What was the error? Did the install continue or did it crash out?

Is your LQ user name from The Cheat in the Home Star Runner cartoons

i gave up on it, but it would never configure the display options right, i had to reinstall windows so i may just build a new pc just for linux

and yes my username is from the cheat from homestar runner

It could probably be fixed with some simple changes to the X config file. It's out of my leauge but I'm sure someone else would have the knowledge to sort it out.

Well, I have a problem with Radeon 9800 Pro (Mandrake 9.1). I start at the bottom:

So, I found that I need DRI support for playing Half-Life. After searching the Net and reading multiple forums, I found out that I need a driver for my 9800 Pro. So I did what others had done, I'd get ATI driver from http://www.ati.com, file was called fglrx-glc-22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm

I started installing it using --force option as manual proposed.
That went fine. But now building that driver needs kernel-source for 2.4.21-0-13enterprise. It won't accept my 2.4.21-0.13mdk (non-enterprise) sources. I haven't found anywhere sources for enterprise version. So I can't finalize building that driver

Maybe someone could help me?