I'm sure this is asked quite often, but how in the world can I get the
official ATI Drivers to work and be able to enable 3D Acceleration?
I've got a Radeon 9200SE. I've tried building the custom package with
ATI's installer, but after doing that, the screen flashes several times
before taking me to the command line "interface." I've seen a few
websites out there describing how to do it, but they mention recompiling
the kernel and I'd much rather not do that. Is there an easy way or at
least an easier tutorial on getting ATI drivers working? Thanks.

-Ryan

Ryan wrote:
> I'm sure this is asked quite often, but how in the world can I get the
> official ATI Drivers to work and be able to enable 3D Acceleration?
> I've got a Radeon 9200SE. I've tried building the custom package with
> ATI's installer, but after doing that, the screen flashes several times
> before taking me to the command line "interface." I've seen a few
> websites out there describing how to do it, but they mention recompiling
> the kernel and I'd much rather not do that. Is there an easy way or at
> least an easier tutorial on getting ATI drivers working? Thanks.
>
> -Ryan

Have you tried the Open Source DRI version(Driver "radeon")? A Radeon
9200SE is based on rv280. It should be supported in accelerated 3D,
see http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for more information
about seting up etc.