[opensuse] Help with ATI drivers - please

Hi All,

I just cant seem to get this right. Trying to install ATI drivers in
opensuse 10.2. I have a radeon 9800 AGP card installed. getting about 23
fps in glxgears.

I installed the ATI drivers by adding this source in yast,
http://www2.ati.con/suse/10.2

From there I installed the following:

*

*ati-fglrxG01-kmp-default*

*

*x11-video-fglrxG01*

The install seemed to go OK.

Then I ran "modprobe fglrx"

Went to yast>hardware>Graphics, 3d was checked in yast (not greyed out
like before). I clicked "confirm" and restarted X. Noting but a grey
screen would come up. Tried rebooting and got back to that same grey screen.

I ssh'ed in from another computer, ran yast and uninstalled the 2
packages. Now I'm back to where I stared, X runs like before. But I
still don't have ATI drivers working.

I did not follow the ATI instructions on opensuse.org, but rather tried
the point and click method as outlined above. I have tried the manual
method before with an nvidea card, but never got that to work either.
All I've ever ran on linux is the default graphics install, and I'm
getting tired of it.

Can someone tell me where I went wrong?

I forgot to mention, I updated xorg, all the blue items before doing the
ATi install. xorg-x11 shows to be version 7.2.146-7. The ATI driver
version was
8.36.5_2.1.18.8_0.3-1.1. I'm running 32 bit, AthlonXP 2500.

I must say i do like adding sources to yast, makes it much easier to
install, and update than previously in 9.3.

Please help.

Jim Flanagan
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