Radeon 8500 and 3D?

I have been searching the list archive to find a solution for my problem. Enabling 3D in sax2 doesn't work. I see in several messages that this has been discussed a lot so I would only like to ask if my understanding of all this is correct. Am I correct in the following? 1. 3D will not work with SuSE 9.0 out of the box? 2. I need ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx/3.7.6/ to get this working? 3. issues are as stated in README from item 2? Damon Register