Stas,

Here is the "play by play"...

Go to the ATI.COM web site,
Click on "Drivers & Software" tab...
Click on "Linux" in the left pane of window...
Clink on "Graphics Drivers" on the center pane of the window...
Click on "Radeon 9600 Series" on the right pane of window...
Click on "GO" just below the right pane window...

On the web page displayed, you need the "Check.sh" program to display your XFree86 version, or so it says, so click on the "Check.sh" link, it will bring up a dialog box, you want to save it to disk... Place the download file somewhere you will remember where it is... You will need to navigate to this location from a TEXT ( Konsole ) screen, after the download completes...

After the check.sh file is downloaded, open a Konsole screen, if you are not ROOT, do a su to be sure you are root...

Do a cd to get to the location of where you downloaded this "check.sh" file, you can do a ls as you navigate, be sure that check.sh is in the output of a ls listing...

The downloaded program, or script will have been downloaded as a "non-executable" file, it did when I just did it, so, you need to do a chmod +x check.sh to ensure you can run this script... verify that "x" is in the output of a ls -la on the check.sh - it should look something like this "-rwx--x--x" ( note the "x" 's in the output...

Now run the script, by doing this: ./check.sh ( note that a period is before the "/"

The script will output what version of XFree86 you are running, mine was 4.3.0.1, and then go back to your web browser, and select the version of your XFree86 from the listed downloadable drivers... ( in my case, my download would be the 4.3.0, yours could be different )

Follow the instructions from the ATI site, if they provide them, else, be sure to download them into a "known" location, like you did with the "check.sh" script, if it is a tarball, you will need to untar it, etc.. etc..