First off I am running slackware 9 with dropline-gnome and an ati all-in-wonder radeon 8500. I installed the latest version of dri from dri.sf.net, that all seemed to go just fine. Then I installed the gatos drivers for Xfree 4.3. I configured XFree86Config-4 to use that radeon driver and then loaded up X. I try to run glxgears and I get segmentation fault, so I run glxinfo and it says direct rendering: no. I do lsmod and I see that my loaded modules radeon and agpgart arent being used. I looked through my XFree86.0.log quickly and all I could find that was an error was '(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available' Now I dont even really mind not having direct rendering that much because I dont even play video games that often but I do to be able to watch tv. I load up avview and all I get are a few random channels, such as channels 2-5 all come in as the same channel and channels 58 to 78 all come in perfectly fine. Anythin inbetween doenst come in at all just static. I have the region as ntsc-cable and my feed is through the tv tuner. I am completely out of ideas of what to do to fix this, please help. Thanks

Just a little update I fixed the agp problem I was having by rebooting the entire system now agpgart is loaded and used and so is the radeon module. I looked at my XFree86.0.log again and it is reporting "(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled" yet when I load up glxinfo it says direct rendering: no and glxgears is only showing about 200fps. I still have the problem where only certain channels are loading up in avview.

Have you got Load "glx" in the modules section of your XFree config file?

Yup Load "glx" is in the modules section of XF86Config-4.