As I posted in the Linux-Software section, the new ATI drivers have been released today. I think they will work for Mandrake 10.1 and with the current x.org because I see this in the fix:

Issues Resolved

This section provides information on issues that have been resolved with the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. This includes the following:

* Starting X on a DVI display no longer results in noisy or flickering output with some displays
* The Monitor autodetect no longer finds a phantom CRT display if none is connected either RADEON™ X800, X700, X300, or FireGL™ V5100, and V5000
* The ATI Proprietary Linux driver now works with Apple Cinema display flat panels in single link mode
* fglrxconfig now produces a proper xorg.conf X Server configuration file
* Running certain 3D applications no longer result in system hangs on x86_64 systems with RADEON™ 9100/8500 series or FireGL™ 8800 installed
* Kernel Module Driver compile support for Kernel 2.6.10
* XVideo support now available in dualhead configuration
* 3D geometry corruption no longer occurs with Celestia and other 3d apps
* A blank screen or X failing to load and returning to the console no longer occurs under X.Org 6.8 when using the config file generated by fglrxconfig
* 64 Bit systems with 4 or more GB of RAM no longer hang the system while loading the X Server

Someone give them a try and report back! I will test them out later this evening after work.

Well, bad news folks. Looks like these new ATI drivers don't work with the default Mandrake 10.1 Official X.org. Best to wait until Mandrake 10.2?

The thing is that I'm not sure if it's an x.org problem, of if there is something wrong building the ati_kernel, whatever that means. I get these errors about how files in /usr/X11R6/libs/blah blah.so won't work. I don't want to remove them or touch them for fear or messing my system up. If anyone knows how to get them working, let us know! One person reported that these new drivers are amazingly fast!

Similar for me :-(
I've installed the rpm package, and ran the fglrxconfig. I also built the kernel modules, and X won't start. The best of all is that I put back the old driver with the old xorg.conf file, rebuilt the kernel modules of course, and now it's doing the same like the newest driver :-((((( In fact this driver worked like a charm before I tried to install the newest one.

I can't acknowledge this.

Micha

Wow, this is an old post I started when I had an ATI video card. lol I use Nvidia now (6600GT).