Unable to get dri enabled

[Nik]

In article <1150204352.7164.138.camel at Lotus-Esprit.modulonet.fr>,
   Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > I've been trying to enable direct rendering, but so far 
> > nothing works. 
> > ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
> > My system is:
> > Linux jjod600n 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 23 
> > So, does anyone have any clue to what goes wrong in my 
> > system? I'd appreciate all hints and tips. Thanks a lot in 
> > advance! :)

> The other day a similar thread came up, and apparently it turns out that
> the problem is that ATI pretty much purposefully obsoleted many "old"
> cards... artificial hardware regressions built-in to force you to buy a
> newer card.... what else :-/
> My card (Radeon 9250 Pro), suffers this regression, so I too am unable
> to use the fglrx driver... :-/

But my Radeon 9200 works...

Nik