newbie to Linux need help

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Hi the problem that I am having is I tried to update from caldera 2.3
I believe the kernel is 2.2.10 to 3.3.6 let me get why I tried to upgrade
received a book on Linux decided to keep it and try the program everything
was going fine til I tried to run kde or startx I have an ATI rage fury 128
vcard and there was no driver support so after leaving it on the shelf
for a while (because downloading 30 rpms was not my idea of fun at 56K) I
later learned about tarballs but still to many to try and collect any way
found out that there are some other tar files three 3.3.6 src.tgz downloaded
them install'em with "make world && make install && make install.man" she ran
half the night when the computer final stopped it was late and I've had my
share of late night mishaps so I shutdown started again in the morning the
next thing I was to do was xf86cfg that when it started the error message
"/lib/libc.so.6 version GLIBC_2.1.3 not found" the commandline is fine can get to the root even x server the vcard problem is fixed but now I can't run kde or startx because of the error also tried updates for glibc-2.1.3-6OL.i386 but no luck so any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
ps. system pII 266 440lx rage 128