Greetings, not sure about the illegal instruction issue, but with a Radeon 9250 you can use the drivers provided by xorg, I think, for 3D goodness etc. and don't need to use fglrx. Have a look at this:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml HTH max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
