Just tried to run tuxracer and got a VERY sluggish response, that seemed like it was trying to run with software rendering. This shouldn't be.

As far as the video driver is concerned, I am using the ATI driver for a Radeon 9600 Pro from ATI, for my kernel: fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm. I checked /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, to be there and to be the version I created. It was.

I ran fglrxconfig, with the options that I had in the past. I ran fglrxinfo and got the following:

Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
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 tells me that I do not have 3D hardware support. I have used the ATI drivers before with MDK9.1 and with RH9.0. I do not understand what is going on.

Any thoughts?

On my Radeon 9000 I haven't had one problem or issue running the drivers that are part of the default for ATI on X Windows. I have open GL working perfectly. I have run a few games including Tux Racer, Unreal Tournament (when it doesn't crash), Tactical Ops, etc and none have had a rendering issue.

If I were you I would try the X Windows Radeon drivers and see if that works for you. I haven't used the ATI drivers because I have heard a lot of isses getting open GL working. From my own experience and this is sad, on all of my hardware literally I have found that modules and "drivers" from members of the Linux community work better then ones issued by vendors. Most of the time these community members are reverse engineering these devices and have a rough to pretty good idea of specs while the vendor knows everything that device has for specs. I think it is because the companies phylosophy is it works ok, well then ship it. What I like to call the Windows phylosophy. A community member looks at it as I am making this for me, I want the most I can get out of the hardware, and it trickles out here after they got what they wanted to work how they wanted it to work.

I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but I hope it aids you being a possiblity. Maybe someone else out here can help you with keeping that configuration. I wish you the best of luck

I tried what jchance suggests when I installed MDK9.2. The X server wouldn't start and I ended up in a console session.

By chance, I ran check.sh from ATI and got the following:

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ATI Technologies
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Checking which OS you're running...
uname reposrts 'Linux' version '2.4.22-10mdk', architecture 'i686'.
Object format is 'ELF'.
libc version is '6.3'.

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 is installed.

No package available for glibc 2.3. Try r200glibc21.tgx
Binary package name is 'r200glibc21.tgz

What the section regarding the glibc means, I don't know, but I will look at installing it.

OK. I got it working (for now).

Here's what I did:

I did an update through "Mandrake update", this took care of many of the problems that I had.
I installed glibc in response to the prior message.
I reinstalled the fglrx RPM from ATI. <-- VERY important
I re-ran fglrxconfigure. <-- VERY important
I re-booted my machine.
I ran fglrxinfo.

Everything was working good until my son switched users. We were back in Mesa mode. NOT good!

I re-boot my machine, and I show the ATI fglrx drivers being active.

I hope this helps anyone with this problem.

A friend of mine had the same exact problem when he tried the ATI's drivers when his card was supported. Well to make a long story short he had to run the config each time and then run startx if i remember correctly.

Hi guys thanks for your posts...you'll help me a lot, cause I got the same problems with 3d...using the drivers included in the 9.2 Powerpack edition.

Only I'm wondering if you are able to get Video input working!

Thanks and regards.

Ciao

The friend I mentioned earlier in this thread installed 9.2 less then a week ago, used the XFree86 provided drivers and of sh*ts and giggles he tried using the video in on his radeon 7200 and it worked like a dream. I am not sure if that is controlled by the driver for the video of the card or by another module. Either way it worked for him.

On the note of myself I haven't been able to find the config file for setup of the on board tv tuner on my 9000 being used. I was under winblows using the feature of PIP if you have the 9000 and ATI's tv wonder tv card. Because of this I can't personally tell you if my svideo in on the 9000 is working but it is working on the tv wonder.

I tryed with the drivers from ATI fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm...
All I got was a console session...so I revert to the previous conf reinstalling the xfree drivers booting from installation disk!!!

I'll try something else...

Bye

Hi I have mandrake 9.2 also, could you pls point (or show) to me how we would go about installing glibc ?

TIA.

You can just use 'urpmi glibc' as root, but most of the time this will already be installed (it depends if you selected gnome, or other packages that need it, during the install). urpmi will tell you if it is already there.

thanks for the tip.