Just reinstalled Fedora core 3, and itś all good except the annoying ati driver problem.
I installed the ¨ati-fglrx.i386¨ package from livna.org with yum and it went smooth but later on boot i got a long message about the driver failing and that the DRI is not going to work... thatś what i managed to catch from that message.
I checked the /var/log/boot.log in hope to find that full message but it appeared there as:
¨Mar 26 19:31:02 fc3 ati-fglrx: Checking for ati-fglrx kernel module failed¨.
I don´t really know what to do now, please help.

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Linux fc3 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 #1 Thu Feb 24 14:00:06 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

type 'lsmod' in a terminal and post the output

ok the output of lsmod is a bit long...

Module Size Used by
eeprom 7641 0
i2c_sensor 3393 1 eeprom
radeon 71168 1
drm 68504 2 radeon
i2c_algo_bit 8393 1 radeon
parport_pc 26629 1
lp 12077 0
parport 37001 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 23493 0
sunrpc 156325 1
nls_utf8 2113 2
ntfs 95984 2
video 15813 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 231681 8
joydev 9217 0
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 32585 0
tuner 19565 0
saa7134 98313 0
video_buf 21829 1 saa7134
v4l2_common 5825 1 saa7134
v4l1_compat 12229 1 saa7134
ir_common 4805 1 saa7134
videodev 9537 1 saa7134
i2c_viapro 7245 0
i2c_core 20801 6 eeprom,i2c_sensor,i2c_algo_bit,tuner,saa7134,i2c_viapro
snd_via82xx 27745 2
snd_ac97_codec 67489 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss 47989 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93001 4 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29125 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9541 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 4929 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 9025 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 25953 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8525 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 52645 12 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,s nd_seq_device
soundcore 10017 2 saa7134,snd
tulip 48609 0
8139too 26433 0
mii 4673 1 8139too
dm_snapshot 16901 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 23213 2
ext3 116297 3
jbd 69977 1 ext3
dm_mod 55637 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

AAAAAAAAH!!!! i had the same problem! no biggie tho'
you're going to need to edit '/etc/inittab', so open it up in any text editor and look for
a line that says something about default runlevel and change the number 5 to 3, then save, exit and reboot. what u just did was stop FC from starting in GUI mode. once linux boots up, log in as root and type 'rmmod radeon', then 'modprobe fglrx' and now all should be good and well! if you haven't run fglrxconfig yet, the you have to it now.

type '/user/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig' and follow the wizard through to the end. if there's any question you're unsure of, just hit enter...except when u get to the monitor horizontal/vertical frequencies, for now just select 31-64 for hor and 50-100 for vert, those setting should work with most if not all monitors at 1024*768@60hz. once you've got X up and running again you can search for the correct settings.

it's all good now, thank you