Hi List, I was wondering whether there is a general intro and/or tutorial somewhere on the web dealing with issues of video hardware acceleration. I am trying to educate myself on a little problem that I keep having with my video drivers. I am a little miffed that I can only get 1280x1024 of 16 bit on my 21" monitor using a 32MB AGP2x TNT2 card (Elsa Synergy II) when I turn on hardware acceleration. Gears claims on average 1000 fps in this mode but I am not sure whether it tells the truth. It doesn't look that fast. Also, I find these ugly horizontal bands across the screen. They arise from a black (or dark) area on the left of the screen (e.g., the cursor in an xterm) and stretch all the way across the screen, almost as if the color had been bleached a bit in that area. When I turn hardware acceleration off I can enjoy a nice spacious desktop with crispy clean 1600x1200 @ 24bit. Thus, I am not really sure whether the limitation under hw acceleration is hardware limited or driver limited. This is on a system running SuSE 7.1 with the dist-supplied nvidia drivers. I played around with the drivers from nvidia's web site and it seems as if 1600x1200 was possible, although very crappy (lot's of horizontal stripes in addition to a chopped up screen). My processor is a Celeron 600 and I have 384 MB of RAM. In case anyone out there has a Synergy II running under Linux with hardware acceleration I'd be very interested to take a look at your XF86Config file and know which drivers you are working with. I'd especially be interested to hear whether this card should work at 1600x1200 @ 24bit under hw acceleration. Best regards, Alex.