everything is extremely slow, literally, even font rendering going line by line but, despite that, it looks pretty good ! i can even watch movie with mplayer -vo gl2 not in full-screen (with slight frame-drops however). about fonts: conditions for fastest font rendering (all with antialiasing) was xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=XAA. mesa earlier than this is not support my card, driver complaining about unsupported XAA on my card but working great for some reason. xf86-video-ati driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=EXA give slightly slower font rendering but better with 3D. xf86-video-ati GIT (today) + mesa GIT + accelmethod=XAA give bad bad speed and approximately same font rendering as xf86-video-ati driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=EXA. xf86-video-ati GIT (today) + mesa GIT + accelmethod=EXA give slightly better 3D performance than xf86-video-ati driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=EXA but font rendering speed beetwen xf86-video-ati driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=EXA and xf86-video-ati driver 6.9.0 + mesa 7.1_rc3 + accelmethod=XAA. So x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd + mesa GIT + accelmethod=EXA give worse (so poor it's annoying) font rendering speed and 3D speed as xf86-video-ati GIT (today) + mesa GIT + accelmethod=XA if you need some info\tests from me - just say it. -- Qui audet adipiscitur