My specs are:
Redhat 9.0 running Kernel 2.4.5
Dual P3 866 on a OR840 Intel Workstation board
384 megs of Rambus
Radeon 8500 LE

I had the drivers working (2.4.20-25) before the Redhat network downloaded a new kernel (2.4.20-26) and put it in. For some reason that kernel wouldnt work with my system so I downloaded 2.4.4. Couldnt get the drivers to work. Finally got it so I could manually load the drivers to get them to work decided well if I can do that then if I recompile it and put whatever is needed in there instead of a module I could get it to work so I downloaded 2.4.5. No dice, couldnt get it to work at all. I purused the forums here on LinuxQuestions and found a tutorial on how to do it on slackware using the 2.6.4 kernel. Should be the same because it uses the same drivers from ATI. Downloaded the latest DRI drivers from dri.sourceforge.net as per the guide said. Maybe I should upgrade to the 2.6.4 kernel and try the guide again.. In my kernel options I have Dri enabled, ATI chip support enabled. Frame Buffer enabled. MTRR enabled. I have tried both of the latest versions of Fglrx (fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm and fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm).

In the last two days I have tried various combinations of DRI enabled and disabled. Framebuffer enabled /disabled. DGA initialized / not initialized. External AGPGART or Internel.. Eh.. Recompiled the kernel atleast 5 times.

If any more info is needed my aim is Tenser234.

Thx in advance

tenser234, try to figure out which shared gl library is loaded, bcos there can be more
of them installed on your computer.

you can get this info for example from strace
( http://sourceforge.net/search/?&q=strace )

$ strace -e open fglrxinfo
should do something like:
...
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
...

normally the ati's libGL.so* are installed into /usr/X11R6/lib/ but if there are another mesa's gl shl somewhere else (/usr/lib/ for example) they could be found and loaded before the dlopen reaches the ati's one.

hope this will help.