I have tried installing ati's drivers for my radeon 9200se. I could not follow the instructions in the readme exactly as shown, because certain things seem to be off. for example

- configure the kernel sources
# cd /usr/src/linux
# rm -f .config
# make cloneconfig
# make prepare-all (only for kernel-source >= 2.6.5-7.75)
- remove kernel module sources
# rm -rf /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx

it says to do this, but my directord only goes to /usr/src/
there is no linux directory in there, so I didn't risk doing the make cloneconfig part and the remove kernel module sources part. I continued with the rest of the steps though,

* install kernel module source

# rpm -Uhv km_fglrx*.rpm

I did this, but again I ran into complications.

compile kernel module sources

# cd /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx
# KERNEL_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux make modules
# KERNEL_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux make install
# depmod -a

I could not do this step either it said no such file or directory I believe

4) Enable 3D support

* edit /etc/X11/XF86Config with your favorite editor

- add

Load "dri"

to Section "Module"


5) Enable TV-out support

* edit /etc/X11/XF86Config with your favorite editor

- add

Option "NoTV" "no"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-D"

to Section "Device"

I added these into the config file, and the correct card is configured in sax 2, radeon 9200se. I also noticed that after I did this driver install 3d hardware enabled is shown in sax2. But when I click on it I get an error installed card cannot use hardware opengl/3d acceleration.

3d acceleration would be nice, but really it's the tv out that i'm trying to get working. I don't know what to do at this point. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

You have to have sources for the Linux kernel installed to compile kernel modules. If you're using a 2.6.x version (check with 'uname -r'), you also have to configure it.

You should search for a RPM package named kernel-source or similar. Failing that, you can get it at kernel.org.

For details, see the Kernel Compilation HOWTO. If that's not enaugh, check out the Kernel Build HOWTO.

I have kernel 2.6.5-7.108 installed on my suse 9.1, in yast with ftp sources it finds kerlen-sources 2.6.4, but I also found on an rpm site kernel-sources 2.6.8. Should I install the latest one? Or do I have to find an identical version number to the kernel I have installed already. Sorry I never messed around with the kernel before, so I don't know

You need to have the sources for the exact kernel version you're running.

That means, either you find a 2.6.5 kernel-sources package (which _should_ be there, maybe you need to update the package list?), or you get yourself 2.6.7 or 2.6.8.1 sources (2.6.8 had a serious bug, so you shouldn't use it), compile and install it.
The latter can be done using the links I gave you, but it will probably take you some time to figure things out for the first time.

Compiling the kernel yourself has the additional advantage that you can optimize it for your hardware / needs.