It seems that the ATI video card is still a lot of people, such as 8500 of the classic graphics card if you can not run under X 3D game is a pity.
!! Illustration 1: This article only applies to 8500 and above graphics card, ATI official did not mention to radeon/7000/7200/7500 support.
!! Description 2:redhat9 has a good 2D support for ATI graphics cards, but also a certain degree of support for 3D acceleration, if you do not belong to (1, has been able to enter X but need a good 3D acceleration, at the same time there is enough DIY spirit; 2, use REDHAT8 and the following, The default X setting does not recognize new labels such as 9100,9200; 3, the above are not, is like tossing) these kinds of situations, please do not easily try to change the X configuration, although very simple, but there is a certain risk, if there is "installed ATI driver I can not enter the X" problem, Please fix it yourself.
!! Illustration 3: Back up/etc/x11/xf86config in any case, unless you can't get into X.
The configuration of this article is: Operating system: RH9; Graphics card: Third party 9100; Monitor: Philips 107p;p4-2g
Another machine: Operating system: RH9 graphics card: Third party 8500LE (powered by ATI), monitor: Lg-l1510s;athlon 1700+ can also install and normal use 3D function;
First, download the driver, to here
Http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html
Select the program download that corresponds to your version of X.
Second, decompression installation
#unzip Glx1_linux_x4.3.zip
inflating:xfree4.3.0_2.9.12/check.sh
inflating:xfree4.3.0_2.9.12/fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.12.i586.rpm
Inflating:xfree4.3.0_2.9.12/fileinfo.txt
Inflating:xfree4.3.0_2.9.12/readme.txt
#cd xfree4.3.0_2.9.12
#rpm-I--force fglrx*rpm
Here will come a lot of information, whatever it is.
To the end of this installation.