3D help with radeon 7000

Hi, Ive got a radeon 7000 64Mb graphics card running on SuSe 8.0. i updated xf86_glx via Yast2, but still get only a system crash on any 3d program. I also ran Sax after updating apon which things became only worse. I have heard perhaps i need dri-package. Where is this? Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Thom Nuzum