I tried installing the ATI driver on 2011 the same way I did on 2010, under the Configure Graphics Server in MCC. It would say that a proprietary driver was available and ask if I wanted to use it but it never downloaded the driver. I saw a post that suggested downloading the driver from the ATI site. When I try to run it it fails. Here is the contents of the error log. Any and all assistance is appreciated.

cat fglrx-install.log
Detected a previous installation, /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh
Dryrun uninstall succeeded continuing with installation.
Uninstalling any previously installed drivers.
Forcing uninstall of AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver.
No integrity verification is done.
restore of system environment completed
Errors during DKMS module removal
fglrx, 8.881-69.1, 2.6.39.4-4.2-desktop, i586: installed-binary from 2.6.39.4-4.2-desktop
Uninstall fglrx driver complete.
For detailed log of uninstall, please see /etc/ati/fglrx-uninstall.log
System must be rebooted to avoid system instability and potential data loss.
/usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh completed with 0
Errors during DKMS module removal

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.92/source ->
/usr/src/fglrx-8.92

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.92/build; sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=2.6.39.4-4.2-desktop --norootcheck....(bad exit status: 1)
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.92 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.92 from DKMS

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Deleting module version: 8.92
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
[Reboot] Kernel Module : mkinitrd

Does this board have any onboard graphics / does this card still have basic funtion w/o drivers? It looks like the installer did a poor job of removing the old version of the driver.

Forcing uninstall of AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver.
No integrity verification is done.
restore of system environment completed
Errors during DKMS module removal

Try uninstalling the old driver via whatever means you installed it (make, or repo) and then try installing the new driver again.

Thanks Huck.  Given that this was an in place upgrade from Mandriva 2010 to 2011, even though I followed the instructions perfectly the environment was never quite right.  I think a lot of it was that in 2010 I was using the Gnome desktop which was not available in 2011.  Even after switching to KDE I still had some problems.  So I did the old, reliable fall back.  I used the Mandriva 2011 DVD I downloaded to perform a fresh install and restored from my Back In Time drive and everyting was OK.  Thanks for the reply though.