Please help so far spent about 5 hours....

Trying to install the ati drivers so i can get opengl from my graphics card, have aliened the drivers (they start as an rpm). installed them (includiing recompiling the kernel....). used modconf to make sure they are installed (and added the module)
however can not get them to work whenever i call fglrxinfo or glxinfi it continues to say "mesa" driver...

I suspect it is because when i installed knoppix i select allowed hw detection,soi suspect it is recreating the xf86config-4 file evry time i restart.

so to the questojns,,,

a) how do i turn off hwdetectioon (prefrubly without reinstalling) so i can edit the xf86config file?
b) Anybody got any better idea as to why it is not working?