It always works if you watch it close enough. Actually I changed kernel to the 2.6.0-test11 that just came out. I kept the old configuration except I compiled agpgart as a module instead of being built into the kernel. now glxinfo says it's doing direct rendering!! glxgears gives about 1000 FPS although the gears don't seem to move much faster. Also there seems to be some hesitation or jerkiness in there movements. dmesg: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2068-0x206f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K12RA, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) .... uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 5, io base 00002020 .......... mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice synaptics reset failed synaptics reset failed synaptics reset failed Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 Firmware: 5.8 180 degree mounted touchpad Sensor: 29 new absolute packet format Touchpad has extended capability bits -> 4 multi-buttons, i.e. besides standard buttons -> multifinger detection -> palm detection input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC). request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-0. error = -16 ALSA device list: No soundcards found. ACPI Debug] String: CMBatt - UPBH.BAT1 [ACPI Debug] Package: Elements Ptr - dfeede68 .................... IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed Adding 2097136k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 ............ EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-RW DVR-K12RA Rev: 1.10 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5 eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1. ohci_hcd: 2003 Oct 13 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_09 [ACPI Debug] String: CMBatt - SMSL ........ [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate. Please try dxs_support=1 option and report if it works on your machine. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_09 [ACPI Debug] String: CMBatt - SMSL [ACPI Debug] Integer: 00000000000000F1 ................. [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_09 [ACPI Debug] String: CMBatt - SMSL ................................ [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 [ACPI Debug] String: QUERY_20 agpgart: Detected VIA KM400/KM400A chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe000000>>>>>>comment: it seems to have found the chipset on the modprobe agpgart<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I don't seem to have the radeon here, but it did show up. I'd have to go through the dmesg dumps again to find everything. Right now I'm going to look at the kernel configuration to see if I can turn off the damn ACPI Debug messages. Thanks for the help, Tom Corner --------------------------------------------------- |\/\/\___/\/\/| Carol Anne Corner & \____ o o ____/ Thomas Corner tacorner@xxxxxxxxx ) ( 04-Dec-2003 23:54:16 Vienna, Austria ( * * ) mailer: xfmail \___/ Web Page: www.corner.chello.at --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86