Suse Linux 9 and ATI do this before installing

[hybrasyl]

If you have an ATI video card > 8500 like me and are running SuSE 9.x you should be aware that ATI has released a new driver for linux.
Also Novell has been kind enough to produce a modified version for SuSE users.  This has fixed 90% of the problems I was having with Planeshift so you may wish to go to   http://ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse92/i386/fglrx/8.8.25
and get the 2 files and read the readme, make sure to follow the directions exactly since it will hose your system if you screw it up.

Also make sure to properly set your environment variables for planeshift since the Linux installer does not appear to do this for you.

Almost forgot one other thing that should help you whether or not you are running SuSE 9.x is to make sure to run ldconfig as root after installing and before running the program.  This will refresh the dynamic linker cache, and may help with some of the strange errors I have seen posted to the board.
 
And Finally one things that may help if you get strange errors about Xlib and not being able to connect, you may want to try a simple reboot of the computer, no idea why but this actually worked for me
Hope This Helps!

[Gandie]

If the SuSE ftp server does not respond, you might want to use one of the official mirrors, instead, e.g. http://ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse92/i386/fglrx/8.8.25/

After installing according to README (and a recommendable reboot) take a look at the output of \"glxinfo\" - it should contain the following lines:
-------
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
[..]
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9000 DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4769 (X4.3.0-8.8.25)
-------

if anything doesn\'t work as expected or you still get low fps, make sure that all libGL.so* refer to /usr/lib/fglrx/lib/libGL.so.1.2 - you definitely don\'t want to use libMesaGL