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Lo again well after trying and trying i couldnt get them drivers on so i went to another distro and bingo they went on smooth without any glitches atall .. so i guess mandriva for me is a no no but thanks for your time and patience in helping me

Yeh the source was installed ok im gonna restart it all again.. ill keeep you posted ill take my time and double check what im doing but im sure im doing it right as per your instructions or ATI'S very strange

Ok i got 2005 LE on and im getting the same thing ..but i got the rpm xorg package from ati when i installed it using command line with force then when i checked glrxinfo it was all there direct 3d enablled so i rebooted and it whent back to mesa i come out of x and see errors that fglrx module couldnt be loaded ok i checked log

Ok thanks for speedy reply the source wasnt installed so i installed that then re run ATI installer then run fglrxconfig then rebooted as on instructions ... now i got blank screen on boot I think your right get another version installed

On my system when I've type glxinfo | grep direct it usually reports something like this: direct rendering: no using Mesa Indirect or wording along those lines. I suggest trying the ATI driver from their website. You might have more luck with that. There are instructions on their website on what to do to configure it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well i used ATI installer and they installed and no blank screen i get this now Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect if i run glxgear its realy slow 335 frames in 5.0 seconds = 67.000 FPS 880 frames in 5.0 seconds = 176.000 FPS 1760 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.000 FPS 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS

i did the search it found some packages and there dependencies about 13 things it installed but still the same as above ... using glxinfo | grep direct

OH ok ill search for libmesa in packages then install them and check

i done second one as first did nothing results for the second are .. Mesa-5.0.2-2mdk just that on its own

Ok heres ther contents on XF86Config # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" HorizSync 30-72 VertRefresh 50-160 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)" Driver "radeon" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection

omg you can tell im really new ok i got to this stage Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect So i guess i didnt config properly in summary i edited the file and that stuff was allready in there ..

Hey thanks for replay ok i tried and messed up again now continuous reboots on normal start up.. so im gonna reinstall it.. the default drivers it installs do i just leave as are and just do the Mesa and vi instruction like u said and leave the ati installer alone this time. the only files i seen to config was XF86Config-4 in etc/X11/ thanks in advance

lo all yep another with ati probs ... Ive looked about and cant get it right now i got blank screen ..Could some kind person tell me how to restore it..And possibaly tell me how to install these driver as im running into brickwalls every time i been at it for hours all night with 2 different distros and still cant get them working ..I would get nvidia but i havnt long had this 9800 .. all help would be very appreciated im sort of a newb to get graphics going the rest not to bad im learning fast and needed no help just reading forums has got me so far but this OMG ..i say no more thanks in advance NuTTy