> I've installed the newest drivers from ATI (I know, closed source, but i
> want to wait a little bit more before try the r300 ones) patched to use
> the 2.6.10 kernel but, for some reason, can't get acceleration. People
> with other distros can, so, is a slackware problem or is just me?

Does glxinfo say "direct rendering: Yes"?

> Other issue is when i plug in my flash disk, used to be sdax, but now,
> there isn't any sda at all... Hotplug was updated, could that be the
> source of the problem?

What kernel are you using? Self-compiled or from -current?
What does dmesh say when you plug the usb-flash?
Are usb-storage and sd-mod loaded?
Is udev running?
Do you perhaps have the UB (usb block device) driver configured? - this
driver handles usb-flash devices differently (they will be named /dev/uba1
etc..). And is also much slower than usb-storage + sd_mod.

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damjan