hello, i have been trying to get the for a week, recompiling the kernel and lots of other fun stuff. Games such as chronium and tuxracer runs at what looks to be 1 fps. Ive found lots of forums that talk of ATI and Nvidia driver issues, but im not so sure its a driver problem. I have a old dimond monster fusion with voodoo banshee chipset (16 meg). Theres got to be another solution to this other than getting a new card. I use to have mandrake 8.2 and all the games ran fast without any trouble, then i installed rh 7.3 a while back and had the same problem till I was told to change an option when recompiling the kernel related to the processor ... (unfortuniatly i dont remember what option it was) ... it worked until i reformated my hd and installed RH9. glxgears runs around 50 fps and everything seems to run fine other than its very slow speeds. Ive spent about a week searching for an answer and havent really found anything promising. My system is as follows:

RH9
Diamond monster fusion (voodoo banshee 16 meg)
k6-II 450 mhz
some generic creative sound blaster compatable sound card

Thanks much for your time.

do you have DMA enabled??
in a term window type.....hdparm -Tt /dev/???

just replace ??? with your drives......hda , hdb, ...etc

You probably already tryed this one, but ..
Is your 3D hardware acceleration(DRI) working?

try glxconfig in a Xconsole, and check for DRI(somewhere at the beginning of the output). Should be enabled.

dma was enabled.
i couldnt find glxconfig, but i had glxinfo, which i think is the same thing ... apparently DRI acceleration wasnt working so i checked my xfree86 logs .. I got a new monitor around the same time i installed rh9. The voodoo banshee didnt like resolutions higher than 1024x768 with DRI, thanks much

this happened to me, and then i downloaed the newest drivers for my graphics card and now all the games run smoothly!