Sucess... Radeon drivers and mandrake
 

Yes it has been a difficult 3 days for this "Newbie".

Getting the latest ati drivers to work on my kt400 chipset motherboard under xfree4.2 was a waste of time.

Using an AGP patch I found for 2.5.1 drivers and following the advice on this site
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I was up and running in 30 minutes.

Man, those mesa toys fly on an accelerated 9500 under Linux!!!

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If you need it drop me a line and I'll tell ya where to go.