I've searched and searched and tryed and tryed, and yet I am unsuccessful at enabling hardware acceleration on Redhat 9.
I have followed many a tutorial, but still unable to get it working. Here's the output of fglrxinfo:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

This means it wasn't successful...here's output from uname -r:
2.4.20-35.9

Per the request of the sticky about posting new threads, here is the output of /sbin/lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e48
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e68

dmesg says:
floppy1: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy driver

I appreciate the help!!! I'm stumped...

This part here:

(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

Makes me think that maybe I should recompile the kernel and enable that module???

I disabled it per the advice of another thread...I want to get advice before I go and recompile, please let me know if that sounds right. Thank you!

Sorry about the h-scroll, I have no idea how to make the text wrap or I would.

Any ideas??

Isn't GeForce3 Ti500 an NVidia card? What are you doing with an ATI driver?

If you have an ATI Radeon card then get the latest driver from ATI and take a look at this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...71#post1248071

and http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/...radeon-faq.html
it says is for Gentoo but covers all of what I did to fix my RH9 and Radeon 9550

Sorry, my sig is old. I don't have the Ti500 anymore, I got a 9800pro recently.

I'm trying to install the drivers from ati and I have followed the directions exactly...I just can't seem to get it working.

I didn't have these problems installing the ati drivers on SUSE 9.1 and it's the same install process...

This must be a tough one huh?

K, I'm recompiling with DRI enabled this time, and I'll reinstall the fglrx drivers and get back in a few minutes.

Hopefully I won't be pissed when I get back

Still no worky...can I post anything that will help identify the problem in addition to what I have already posted?

Anybody??

Just checking: Still Red Hat 9? 2.4.20-35.9 is newer than mine but I doubt there is a problem whth that
Still using XFree86?
Is your 9800 AGP?

I don't think there isnything particulary wrong with the ATI drivers, I just intalled it in a brand new IBM laptop with a FireGL chipset, Fedora Core 2 and Xorg, it also works fine.

What's the output of /sbin/lsmod

And:

What's in your XF86Config?
Where it says:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
... etc.

until
EndSection

then
Section "Screen" (this one is shorter).