I know this has been gone over and over and over again but I'm still having some problems. This is what i have done so far:

Downloaded the new ati driver 3.7.6 (released 3/10/04)
rpm2tgz
pkgtool (to remove older driver which didn't work either)
installpkg new driver
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
chmod a+rx make.sh
./make.sh
cd ..
chmod a+rx make_install.sh
fglfxconfig
xfree86-dga = y
external agpgart = y
modprobe fglrx

a lsmod shows that agpgart and fglrx are running but when i do a fglrxinfo it is still giving me the mesa drivers...

I have made sure that the XF86Config says the driver is fglrx

anything else to try?

thanks

Did you install the driver as root?

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yes i did, logged out of X, su'd to root.

check you /var/log/XFree86.0.log file... it will give you ideas as too what is failing..

This is from that file, could this be the problem? If so, how do i go about fixing it?

(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe19d0000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe19d0000 to 0x40243000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf0000000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 3.7.0
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Dec 18 2003
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI Fire GL DRM kernel module
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe19d0000 at 0x40243000
(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): ********************************************* *

Just a thought. Did you delete your old driver first?

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i removed the old tgz file using pkgtool yes. But then i thought it may be still using the old module so i rmmod fglrx and reinstalled the new ati driver and went through the process again. Just to make sure. and still it is saying mesa drivers.

Instead of su to root, try logging in as root and reinstall the driver as root. Then go into X as root and check to see if the driver loaded. If the driver did load as root, it should now also work as a user.