finally took the plunge and ditched my XP and installed suse 10.1 with KDE .

I am trying to get the 3D hardware working on my ATI radeon 9800, I have managed to get it working all fine and dandy logged in as the root user, however when logged in as a grunt its says 3D is not configured , my understanding is that i compiled the fglrx into the kernel and so would be available to all users, any body help please