[Dri-users] NWN and Hercules radeon 9500pro 3d card

[Alfonsi <Pao...@mc...>]

I want to play neverwinter nights under linux. I made an error: I bought 
the "hercules-implemented" radeon 9500pro instead of the ati version, 
and I successively discovered that hercules does not even know the 
existence of an o.s. called 'linux', and the ati makes drivers only for 
its own graphics card.
I updated my linux distribution to Mandrake 10.1 two weeks ago and I 
notice that the new X-server (now is called Xorg, but I think it is 
simply a new version of the usual Xfree86, isn't it?) has a "3d hardware 
acceleration" option that I have activated.
But nwn doesn't work. So I read all this documentation about DRI ... 
maybe games such as nwn do not require external libraries .. the 
downloadable snapshot has been moved to a new location..
In conclusion I have the following question:
1) the files that I find in "http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/" can 
be used or not? Because the url 
"http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdri?action=refresh&arena=Page.py&key=Software_2fdri.text_html" 
states that they were compromised...
2) I have to download the common and the 'r200' archives (the most 
recent ones), isn't it? Reading docs, my card is defined an 'R300' card, 
but I also read that for radeon 8500 and next I have to get the r200 
driver.. I'm a bit confused.. is it right?
3) How to install these drivers? I see in the archives an 'install.sh' 
but there is no READMEs or similar. Does the script recompile a new 
kernel? In this case maybe I have to install kernel sources from 
mandrake distribution CDs...
4) Are some of these files already included in my distribution (rather 
recent)?

Thank you to everyone
Matteo