Need help with installing ATI proprietary driver

[GrannyGeek]

My best computer, the Athlon 64 X2 in my sig, has onboard Radeon Xpress200 graphics. I'm using the open-source radeon driver and it seems to do fine with my 1600x1200 LCD monitor. However, my glxgears scores are bad and I don't think the radeon open-source driver does 3D.

I have never been able to install the VL proprietary ATI driver, as it complains of an error and fails. I downloaded ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run from ATI and tried to install it from that file. It also gives an error and fails:

Code:

which: no XFree86 in (/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games)

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.31.11; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.VZJzjC

ATI's Web site says:
Automated installer and Display Drivers for X.Org 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, or 7.4

VL6 SOHO Deluxe uses Xorg 1.6.3, which is quite a bit newer than 7.4. The error message above is something I can't understand at all (meaning it's beyond my powers to comprehend). Is there any hope for installing the proprietary driver?
--GrannyGeek

[MikeCindi]

Have you tried the latest (...10-6-x86_64.run)? Don't know if that will work for you as I'm not sure what that error means either.

[GrannyGeek]

I downloaded the file yesterday from ATI's Web site (now AMD), so I assume it's the latest. ATI is very bad about maintaining Linux support for older cards/chips so maybe the Radeon Xpress 200 has fallen through the cracks. This computer was purchased in January 2006 and has an ASUS OEM motherboard for Hewlett Packard.

Does anybody have other ideas?
--GrannyGeek