Tom's Hardware: Topic ATI Linux Drivers
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You need to install your kernel sources and symlink them to /usr/src/linux. Find out what kernel version you're using and download the sources from the mandrake site. Untar them in your /usr/src directory.
tar -zxvf kernel-src-2.4.24-r2-mdk.tar.gz
(or something like that anyways).
You'll get something like
/usr/src/2.4.24-r2-mdk/
Then type
mkdir /usr/src/linux
and then make the symbolic link
ln -s /usr/src/linux /usr/src/2.4.24-r2-mdk/
Then try running it.
You must have the symbolic link pointing to the folder containing the sources for your currently running kernel in order for it to work though.
This is one of the reasons why I love gentoo though. Sure, it's a bit of a pain to set up, but once it is, all I had to type to install the new drivers was
emerge /usr/portage/media-video/ati-drivers-3.7.0.ebuild
and it was done. 
Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.
Hmm, sounds like the ati drivers want some things in your kernel, or some modules that you don't yet have. You can try a kernel compile if you want. I'm fairly sure this will fix your problem.
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
That will allow you to customize your kernel. The current config is for the kernel you have right now. Flip through the menus and see if you can find a graphics drivers section where there might be some ATI things you can select. If there is, highlight them and hit <M> to compile them as modules. Exit the config program via the menu, save the config and then type:
make dep && make clean modules modules_install
This will compile the new modules for you. Reboot your computer (don't HAVE to, but I don't know the names of the modules you just compiled, so we'll do it the "easy windows" way 
). Once the new modules are loaded, try building the driver again.
Sidenote: That make dep &&... command I gave you compiles your modules only. If you wanted to compile a new kernel as well you'd type:
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
This will make a file called bzImage in your /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot (usually) directory. You can copy this file to /boot/bzImage and this is the kernel image your computer actually uses. Of course you probably don't want to overwrite your old one, so you could copy it as bzImage2 and then make a new entry in your bootloader program to give you an option.
end sidenote
Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.
The bonus is once you've compiled your own kernel, you get to slough off the "fairly new to linux" tag and graduate to the next step
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