> What I do not understand is if this is so, how the hell > does he start X ?
Hi, I have a ati 9500 pro, and i found it very confusing to set up but this is how I was able to do it. emerge ati-drivers opengl-update ati -- so far exactly like you did.., but the XF86Config is very flaky I had to use fglrxconfig to make a XF86Config. almost any hand editing makes my X server crash. So I use the plain XF86Config-4 that is created by fglrxconfig. Hope this helps.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list