wine users - Jan 2010 - ati mobility X1400 being recognized as a geforce 3 card

I am running openSUSE 11.2 with gnome desktop 2.28 and wine 1.1.36 with some
winetricks addons installed. Now I am fairly new to linux/wine in general, and
several games, including halo and trackmania give me a dialogue box stating I
have out of date drivers for my geforce 3 card, although I have an X1400
mobility. Trackmania will still run, albeit not very well, but halo crashes
right after the first screen. Some games, including counter-strike do not work
at all (I start the game, and nothing happens). I understand that alot of games
aren't compatible with wine, and I do have a windows desktop to play them,
but I like to experiment with different setups, thus my foray into linux. If
anyone has an answer or can point me in the right direction, it would be most
appreciated.

rashj3 wrote:
> I am running openSUSE 11.2 with gnome desktop 2.28 and wine 1.1.36 with
some winetricks addons installed. Now I am fairly new to linux/wine in general,
and several games, including halo and trackmania give me a dialogue box stating
I have out of date drivers for my geforce 3 card, although I have an X1400
mobility. Trackmania will still run, albeit not very well, but halo crashes
right after the first screen. Some games, including counter-strike do not work
at all (I start the game, and nothing happens). I understand that alot of games
aren't compatible with wine, and I do have a windows desktop to play them,
but I like to experiment with different setups, thus my foray into linux. If
anyone has an answer or can point me in the right direction, it would be most
appreciated.

You can try upgrading to the latest version of fglrx that supports the x1400 if
you have not already, newer versions of fglrx are more stable, but also drop
support for older cards.

I tried the Catalyst driver about a week ago and completely fubar'ed my
graphics. This is a quote taken from the openSUSE wiki:

"Please note that an incompatibility exist between 11.2 and ATI Catalyst
Driver 9.3 for "legacy" chipsets from Radeon 9500 to X1900."