On 01/04/04 13:06 Martin Pisz spoke thusly

> Hi
> I want to install ati's drivers for 3D acceleration for a total newbie to
> computers period. I plan to use Mandrake 9.2 as OS for all his needs,
> mostly email and browsing. I installed the kernel source, I recompiled
> kernel with athalon support and no local apic. I installed the fglrx rpm
> from ati using -i --force parameters. It said there was conflict with Mesa
> package. Anyway, 2D seems to work, but 3D is software only. After typing
> fglrxinfo I get Mesa project as vendor, instead of ATI. Has anyone been
> able to install these drivers for the card under mandrake 9.2. What did
> you do to get it going? Ati sucks, my old Nvidia 2MX card works like a
> charm when I install Nvidia drivers. Also the nforce drivers for this
> board also work like a charm when installed.

Maybe something on this link will help:
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/

I am an nvidia user. :-)

The driver from ati.com is a RedHat rpm?

Maybe remove the Mesa package: rpm -e mesa?

Bob wrote:

Hi I have Nvidia card as well and installing the driver is a breeze of just
follow instractions, after i figure to boot into mandrake without graphical
user interface in lilo. Or using init 3 and inti5 commands. I got the ATI
to work but I have no idea how I did it. Uninstalling meas under mandrake
gets rid of kde. And urpmi won't let you get rid of mesa without
dependencies. rpm -e does not work on meas in mandrake. But i manually
deleted the conflicting file link and then installed and it seemed to work.
Once I got it to work it only crashed. ATI drivers are not as good as
nvidia under linux, but maybee the open source will be, I dont' think they
give full speed and definitly less stable.

> On 01/04/04 13:06 Martin Pisz spoke thusly

>> Hi
>> I want to install ati's drivers for 3D acceleration for a total newbie to
>> computers period. I plan to use Mandrake 9.2 as OS for all his needs,
>> mostly email and browsing. I installed the kernel source, I recompiled
>> kernel with athalon support and no local apic. I installed the fglrx rpm
>> from ati using -i --force parameters. It said there was conflict with
>> Mesa
>> package. Anyway, 2D seems to work, but 3D is software only. After
>> typing
>> fglrxinfo I get Mesa project as vendor, instead of ATI. Has anyone been
>> able to install these drivers for the card under mandrake 9.2. What did
>> you do to get it going? Ati sucks, my old Nvidia 2MX card works like a
>> charm when I install Nvidia drivers. Also the nforce drivers for this
>> board also work like a charm when installed.
>
> Maybe something on this link will help:
> http://gatos.sourceforge.net/
>
> I am an nvidia user. :-)
>
> The driver from ati.com is a RedHat rpm?
>
> Maybe remove the Mesa package: rpm -e mesa?