[LennonCook]

I'm in the process of converting the Hivetyrant to Linux. Distro is a DVD version of Fedora Core 1, as bundled with an Oxford Guide for using Linux. But there are problems with the graphics card (an ATI Radeon 9800 SE)... when drivers are installed specifically for it (the proprietry drivers released by ATI, downloaded yesterday), X will not start. Once we get it back to a proper error from the log (Fedora for some reason starts X on boot, and then gives "user-friendly" simplified errors), it says this:

No matching device section for instance [...] No screens found

And the only solution is to revert back to the generic VESA drivers... problem being, that these make the Asteroids game choppy. No, I'm not exagerating. We tried upgrading to Kernel 2.6.9, incase the drivers didn't work with the 2.4.x kernels, but that didn't help.

We did remember while we were fiddling that Windows has been known to do similar things with this computer - it needs Intel Drivers for the mainboard for the AGP to work properly (it sits at 0x without them), but we don't know how we would get these drivers for Linux. The CD with the proprietry intel drivers doesn't seem to know that Linux exists: it, typically, only supports Windows.

Is there any easy way to fix this problem?