WELL, I THOUGHT IT WAS SOLVED COZ I HAD DIRECT RENDERING BUT NOW MY SYSTEM HANGS CONSTANTLY!!! I followed this Howto step by step, I've tried to do it with modules or with built-in mode but my Gentoo continues hanging, for example, when I run glxgears and tvtime both together. I don't understand it! So here you have some relevant info (ask for more if necessary please!!) : gentoo ibai # lsmod | grep 'drm\|agp\|rad' radeon 107040 1 drm 64148 2 radeon radeonfb 85824 0 fb 42920 1 radeonfb i2c_algo_bit 9096 2 bttv,radeonfb cfbcopyarea 3840 1 radeonfb cfbimgblt 3072 1 radeonfb cfbfillrect 3712 1 radeonfb i2c_core 16912 6 tuner,bttv,tveeprom,radeonfb,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801 intel_agp 19996 1 agpgart 28872 2 drm,intel_agp gentoo ibai # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep MTRR zcat: /proc/config.gz: No such file or directory gentoo ibai # lspci | grep -i radeon 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] I attach my .config: