Ok I finally got my X working with HW rendering. My friend installed the fglrx patch. The module doesnt load at startup so I do it manually, which is no biggie. The main problem is when I try to kill X my WM starts to shut down and all the apps close then X turns into almost frozen static and i cant do anything. SO to restart X I have to basically restart my computer which is a pain. I've even had someone ssh to my box and kill -9 the X process and it still locks. Its really annoying. I cant even switch TTYs, if I do it locks the same way it does before. Any ideas?