I have a Radeon 9600 Pro EZ and an nVidia motherboard (ASUS nForce 2 Deluxe) and I'm not sure why, but I have problems installing the drivers that ATi has on their web for Linux. I also freaked out when I read on nVidia's web page that it's GART driver didn't yet support other video card acceleration from other companies than theirs, and since my motherboard is nVidia... is intalling nVidia's motherboard, sound and Lan drivers, and then installing ATi's drivers on top (Gart drivers included) a safe thing to do?
I had Mandrake 9.1 installed but had to install it on text mode... it was hell because I'm a total noob. I tried to install Ati's driver (without installing nVidia's) and just made everything even more broken. I tried to uninstall Linux... I didn't find a way to do it and a friend of mine told me to do a fdisk/mbr. That totally f*cked my hard disk's partitions, so I lost ALL my stuff (windows stuff and linux's stuff). That s*cked a lot. Sorry for my vocab, but I'm realy pissed off.