ATI Radeon8500LE And FC4

[KaldorKallindre]

This may have been posted elsewhere, but I could not find it. I'm sorry if I have double-posted.

I'm running Fedora Core 4 with kernel ver. 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4
I've got an ATI Radeon 8500LE video card.
I believe I have installed the necessary components for my system to recognize the card, however, I cannot get OpenGL to work properly. I'm getting a frame rate of 14.5 f/ps on the Gears screensaver, and before I updated my kernel, I was getting over 1500. I don't know what happened, or what I did wrong, but I've been tearing my hair out all week trying to get opengl to work. Can anybody help me?

Stu

[a thing]

Sounds like you installed ATI's drivers. Stick with DRI's drivers, they're free and much better. Not sure, but I think the only way to get rid of the corruption of those binary blobs is reinstalling.

[KaldorKallindre]

DRI would be great if I could compile it. It gave me an error about my kernel, something about needing ver 2.4. Is there a way to use yum or yumex to get it?