mpisz

Hi I got a total newbie into computers and built a system for him with mandrake 9.2 as his OS, as he only mostly needs it for internet. Anyway an ATI 9600 {Saphire card was on sale so I got him that, big mistake, Nvidia runs smooth in linux}. Anyway I'm trying to get his card 3d ready for dvd playback and tuxracer and so forth. I got rpms from ati. Followed instructions x with no success. Apperanlty there is a conflict with MESA. If I get rid of MESA most of KDE gets unistalled as well. Funny thing was I was messing around with it, and I got it to actually work smoothly. Then I did an update and it's gone again. I get the driver to install under 2d. It says 3d should be working, but when I type fglrxinfo I get MESA as vendor. Has anyone successfully and reliably installed this card on mandrake 9.2 I've been trying for two weeks now an I can't get it back. 3d worked well when it did, tuxracer was smooth. System Asus a7n8x-x atahlon 2500+ ATI Saphire 9600, 256 DDR 512 DDR400