I did some more fiddling and found solutions to a couple of the problems mentioned above: XVideo now works, and OpenGL mostly works (watchable while windowed but utterly useless at full screen). I also got the new ATI drivers working.
First I downloaded the latest version of xorg--6.8.1--and compiled and installed it while X was running, according to the directions given in the "BUILD" file. Next I removed the old ATI drivers using pkgtool and cleaned up by typing "rm -vfr /lib/modules/fglrx". Then I installed the new drivers by doing:
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$ rpm2tgz fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm
$ su
<password>
# installpkg fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.tgz
# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build*
# sh make.sh
# cd ..
# sh make_install.sh
# modprobe fglrx
Note: "$" represents a normal user prompt; "#" represents a root prompt. Also note: if this your first time installing the drivers, be sure to add the line "modprobe fglrx" to the end of rc.modules.
After doing this I found that "startx" caused X to crash complaining about keyboard stuff. To fix this, I went into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the lines:
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Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "Keyboard"
To:
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Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
(Note the lowercase "k" in the "Driver" line.)
Finally, in order to get POSIX shared memory to work (and thus allowing antialiasing, etc.), I added the following line into my /etc/fstab:
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tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
And mounted it by typing "mount /dev/shm". You can check to see if this worked by typing "mount | grep shm".
I hope this helps somebody else who's having the same problems.
Still, if anybody can help me get OpenGL working nicely at full screen like it used to, I would be very grateful...and the original question remains: How can I add video modes to the GUI?
Have a good one.
--Dane