Try the "ati" or "radeon" drivers. You may have to mess with your xorg.conf to get them working with direct rendering, but with a card as old as yours, you won't find anything else.

The xorg ATI drivers you speak of are the fglrx drivers, ATI's proprietary drivers.

They won't work as they don't support anything older than the radeon 9000 series.

Message Edited by cmspaz on 04-09-2007 08:03 AM

If you installed whatever distro you're running from LiveCD, you should have the "ati" and "radeon" drivers already. To use them, you need to switch the driver from whatever it is in your xorg.conf. If I recall correctly, the "radeon" driver should work. You'll need to change the "driver" option under the "Device" tab for your video card in the xorg.conf. You'll probably need to do more than that, so look into any other changes that may need to be made, and make those two.

But remember, the first thing you should do is back up your xorg.conf.