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Greetings to the community. This is my first post.

I gave spend the last couple of weeks trying to enable 3D on my Toshiba Satellite A300-22W laptop. lspci reports

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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series

I have just installed a fresh copy of Slackware 13, and followed the steps below

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1) sh ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Slackware/All
2) installpkg fglrx-module-8.64-x86_64-1_kernel_2.6.29.6.tgz fglrx-x740_64a-8.64-x86_64-1.tgz
3) aticonfig --initial
4) cp /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default /etc/ati/amdpcsdb
5) rmmod radeon
6) rmmod drm
7) depmod -a
8) modprobe fglrx

fglrx module loads with no complains

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bash-3.1# lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 1989404 0
agpgart 29256 2 intel_agp,fglrx
bash-3.1#

xorg.conf is auto-generated by aticonfig as following

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bash-3.1# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

bash-3.1#

My problem is than when I run startx, the computer totally freezes with a (well now to all ATI-hang threads) minus to the top-left corner.
/var/log/Xorg.log is emty.
I have also try to update to the current Xorg

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bash-3.1# Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.7.1
Release Date: 2009-10-23
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29.6-smp i686
Current Operating System: Linux darkstar 2.6.29.6-smp #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 22:16:07 EET 2009 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=jkar_kernel ro root=811 vt.default_utf8=0
Build Date: 06 December 2009 10:23:36AM

Current version of pixman: 0.15.20
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
bash-3.1#

2D graphics with "radeon" driver (or when I rm xorg.conf works fine).

I started to run out of ideas...
Thank you for your time.