I am somewhat new to Linux, although not completely helpless.
 
Anyhow, I have an ATI Radeon X700 (AGP8x) and Slackware running /testing Kernel 2.6.10 with the official ATI drivers running. My problem is that OpenGL games run at about 30 spf (seconds per frame... not a typo ). All 2D type stuff runs very nicely now (compared to when I was using a 2.4.x Kernel which didn't support AGP8x and the drivers didn't seem to work), however 3D stuff does not. When I try to run any games, they run so slowly that I often have to ctrl+alt+backspace to get out. Any idea what the issue is here? Some "force software rendering" type setting I'm missing or something?
 
As an odd note and this is the first time this has happened to me, I ran "glxinfo" a few minutes back and system froze. The mouse pointer would move around, but that's it... the rest of the system was frozen, even ctrl+alt+backspace wouldn't work.
 
Here is the output of my glxinfo:
 

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name of display: :0.0display: :0  screen: 0direct rendering: Yesserver glx vendor string: SGIserver glx version string: 1.2server glx extensions:    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfigclient glx vendor string: ATIclient glx version string: 1.3client glx extensions:    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,    GLX_ATI_render_textureGLX extensions:    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,    GLX_ARB_multisampleOpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X700 PRO GenericOpenGL version string: 1.3.5140 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)OpenGL extensions:    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,    GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program,    GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,    GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters,    GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,    GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,    GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,    GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,    GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program,    GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_draw_buffers,    GL_ATI_element_array, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,    GL_ATI_map_object_buffer, GL_ATI_separate_stencil,    GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_float,    GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATI_vertex_array_object,    GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_streams,    GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATIX_texture_env_route,    GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,    GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax,    GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,    GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,    GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,    GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection,    GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc,    GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,    GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,    GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_vertex_shader,    GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_occlusion_query,    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,    GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arraysglu version: 1.3glu extensions:    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat----------------------------------------------------------------------0x23 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x24 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x27 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x28 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x29 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x2a 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x2b 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x2c 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x2d 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x2e 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  1 0 None0x2f 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x30 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x31 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None0x32 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None