I have a similar configuration, an ASUS A7V8X with the Matrox G550. I'm running Red Hat Linux 9 now. 8 was the first operating system on the machine. With every 8 kernel and the first few 9 kernels the machine completely froze about once a week. With the past few 9 kernel updates the X server just freezes with the following: ioctl(8, 0x4008642a, 0xbfffe388) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc., doesn't work. You must ssh in and reboot. I don't think this problem has anything to do with direct rendering, because the X wedge has occurred during, for example, the starwars screensaver and has even occurred while normally interacting with the machine. Are you using the DVI interface or any driver from Matrox? John -- John GOTTS <jgotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86