Some important additional information !!

My 3D wasn't working, i.e. GL-117 flight simulator game complained there was no 3D hardware and glxgears reported a frame rate of 150 fps.

This was the solution....
The card I have is a ATI 9550 AGP, the ATI installation script installs the following entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

THE ABOVE ENTRY IS WRONG !!

The card is an AGP not PCI

If you edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that the BusID is commented out with the '#' at the beginning of the line ... i.e.

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver "fglrx"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Then the 3D works, xine works, Gl-117 works and glxgears reports 2500 fps instead of 150 fps !

In summary ATI's installation script needs fixing. (In so many ways) :-)

I still have the first entry of a 9700 card but what the hell, everything is now working as it should. Maybe I could deinstall the 9700 driver .... but then everything works, why break it ..

Nick

My last post about commenting out the setting

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

was incorrect. It does NOT need to be commented out to get the 'ATI 9550 AGP' card working in 3D. I proved this by looking at an identical system, the "BusID "PCI:1:0:0"" line was most defintely not commented out and the 3d graphics worked just fine. glxgears displays a frame rate of 2500fps


Nick