Well looking at my saved xorg.conf I didnt have the section "dri" I will add
that...Im now working off knoppix since I made a booboo and need to start
over..but I will deffinatly give it a try once im back up and running
tomorrow or the next.

Albert wrote:

> Brainbeer has offered us the following clue :
>
>> A few more things I forgot about...I have nvidia card with the kernel and
>> glx installed and splash screen going. But I am only getting about 10-15
>> frames a second on glxgears. The memory size is in my xorg.conf, but
>> still its slow. Secondly, on kdm, only root shows up as a clickable
>> selection...any way to fix these?
>
> 10-15 fps is quite slow. I get 320 fps with my Athlon XP3000 with nforce
> chipset.
>
> This is part of my xorg.conf :
>
> Section "Module"
>
> # This loads the DBE extension module.
>
> Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
>
> # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
> # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
> SubSection "extmod"
> Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
> EndSubSection
>
> # This loads the video 4 Linux module
>
> Load "v4l"
>
> # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
>
> Load "type1"
> Load "freetype"
>
> Load "xtt"
> Load "speedo"
>
> # This loads the GLX module
> Load "glx"
> # This loads the DRI module
> Load "dri"
>
> Load "GLcore"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "dri"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> You should also compile the kernel with the right options.
>
> To decide which user appears on kdm, start the KDE control center in
> superuser mode (kdesu kcontrol) and go to "system administration",
> "connexion management", "users" (sorry, my menu is in French, I translated
> more or less well) then you can decide which user may appear and which
> image is associated to them.
> There is certainly a CLI way or a .conf file to do that. Some extremists
> here won't like you run kcontrol in superuser mode, follow my eyes,
> (obviously some like it since there is a superuser button in the KDE
> menu).