Giulia,

I've got this Asus A6kt AMD Thurion-64 laptop just to play with 64-bits
OSes/apps etc. So from the very beginning I'm using only 64-bits OS [I also have
couple of gigs partition with ms-windows, which is 32-bits but I've booted it
may 5 times max].

what I may suggest is download the ATI installer; create somewhere in your home
 rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} dirs to build rpms. Create ~/.rpmmacros
and put 

%_topdir /path/to/that/dir
%_tmppath /path/to/tmp/dirs

to avoid building rpms as root in /usr/src/rpm

chmod +x /the/path/2installer

run the installer with -h option to see available options.
run the installer with --listpkg [pipe the output through your favorite pager
such as less or more] and then --buildpkg <selected pkg>. Keep in mind that
final pkg/pkgs will be in your current directory.
When you finish with build -- try to install [don't forget to switch to the text
mode with telinit 3. and ensure that it works with "startx" and only if it works
-- switch back to GUI with "telinit 5".

If there are errors check /var/log/Xorg.0.log 

BTW there was an RHEL5 option [for 32 bits] so you could try it and update wiki
with your results.

Good luck
Alex
Quoting Giulia Iafrate <[log in to unmask]>:

> Thamks Alex,
> On my laptop (acer TM 8215) I have the same card as you (ATI X1600) and the
> same problems.
> So now I'll try to install the new drivers, but I have a question: the wiki's
> part you updated is for SL_5.0 64 or 32 bit? I'm running SL_5.0 32 bit, can I
> follow your tutorial ora Ive to do somthing different?
> 
> Thanks.
> Giulia
> 
> 
> > I remember someone reported problems with ATI video card in SL 5.0
> > Well, ATI issued on 25/06/2007 new drivers 8.38.6:
> >
> > http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/previous/linux64-r-8-38-6.html
> >
> > and they worked perfectly with ATI X1600 on my laptop.
> > I updated wiki's part for SL 5.0:
> >
> >
> http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/RedHat_Enterprise#Scientific_Linux_.28SL_5.0.29
> >
> > May be someone will find it usefull.
> > May be there is sufficient info about solving problems with the driver so
> > someone could build correct rpms and put them into rpm repository.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> > 
> 
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