On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
> I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
> Radeon 9200se card with the following options:

I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having
>
> [...]
> Section "Device"
>
>      #VideoRam    131072
>      # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
>          Identifier  "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
>          Driver      "radeon"

That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D. 
For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver

>          Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>          Option "AGPMode" "8"
>          Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
>          Option "BackingStore" "true"
> EndSection
> [...]

My experiences were that composite with the radeon driver were ... poor

alan

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