I'm having a helluva time getting Catalyst 7.12 to load the driver in Mandrake. The drivers install and I run the "aticonfig --initial" command and reboot. After I reboot my 2D scrolling is slow and OpenGL games still don't work. Also I cannot open the Catalyst Control Center which usually means the proper ATI driver itself isn't loaded. I checked under Harddrake (the hardware config program) and my graphics driver is still the VESA default driver and the ATI driver for my 2900XT is not in the list.
What step am I missing to get these drivers to finally work?
Relevant System Info: I have Mandrake 2007 x86_64bit patched to the latest Linux kernel. Opteron 185, DFI nF4-SLI DR Expert, and a 2900XT 512mb, X-Fi 64mb (another driver mess for another post).