[Newbie]Nervous breakdown: please help me!

[Eugenio Landi]

Hi,

  

    please help me! I'm trying to configure my  ATI PCI Radeon 32 MB video card. Here are the steps I followed:

1. I upgraded from XFree86 4.1.0 to XFree86 4.2.0
2. I tried to configure X with the command XFree86 -xf86Config /root/XF86Config.new

After running the above command I was not able to see anything: everything was grey.

At this point I pressed Alt+Ctrl+Backspace and on the screen in character mode I got the error:" (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONInitVisualConfigs failed (depth 8 not supported). Disabling DRI."

Why? Must I edit some configuration file?

 

I thought it was a good idea trying to download another driver so I visited

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12629

and I got ATI-4.2.0-6.i386.tar.gz and drm-kernel-1.2.0-6.tar.gz ( I got both because
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php said to do so).

Here is my second problem: what must I do with drm-kernel-1.2.0-6.tar.gz? How can I install it? Must I compile something? Please, go to the link above and take a look at this file so you can understand what it is and what can do with it!!!!

 

Help me, I'm becoming mad!

Thank you.

Regards,

Ugy