Can I use Cadalyst drivers on Fire GL?

[sndlogic]

I have an ATI Fire GL X1. I've seen some folks talk about modifying Cat drivers to run on a Fire GL card, primarily for better DirectX (at the expense of OpenGL). How do I do this?

[laspring]

Hi!
I have a FireGL X1 128MB too.
Yesterday I have successfully installed the CATALYST 4.1.
BUT it is not working perfectly because all OpenGL application crash before run. The D3D applications are seems to be working perfectly.
Furthermore I have to mention that e.g. the 3DMark2003 points the same with the FireGL driver and with the Cat4.1...

The way:
1. Download the unpacked Catalyst driver files from www.radeon2.ru (the original ATI is not good because that is packed)
2. Run it (extract to the hdd)
3. ControlPanel->System->Hardware tab->DeviceManager
4. DisplayAdapters->RightClick on the FireGL->UpdateDriver->Select the "Install from a list or ...(Advanced)" -> Select "Don't search..." -> Have disk -> Browse the extracted driver -> Select the RADEON 9500 PRO / 9700
5. Finish the procedure and repeat it to the Secondary display adapter.
6. Restart

So that is not enough for the happines

[laspring]

NOW I AM HAPPY!
I have successfully flashed the 9700Pro bios to my FireGL X1 card!
And it works!
Tools what you need:
- Flashrom 2.23
- ATI Radeon 9700Pro bios (v8004)
- clean dos boot disk

You can download these from here!

I could install the original Catalyst 4.1 and now I have no more problems with the driver installation or runing the games...
After it you can use your card as FireGL with the known softmod yet. But I will not