ATI Radeon fglrx driver (hoary)

[Bob Nielsen]

I recently installed a Radeon 9200SE video card and initially set it up 
using the "ati" driver in xserver-xorg.  The performance seemed quite 
good, but I figured that I could get some improvement using the fglrx 
binary driver.

I then install the xorg-driver-fglrx package (per the instructions on
the wiki--substituting xorg for xfree86 where appropriate) but when gdm 
starts, the screen blanks and nothing happens.  

The logfile has some interesting information:

(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x
(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect XFree86 version (query_status=-3)

Could it be that fglrx is not compatible with xorg?

I tried running X using the fglrx driver without the fglrx kernel module
and I did get a display, however there was no acceleration and the
performance was quite poor compared to the ati or radion driver.

Any suggestions?

Bob