> When do you think the "sometime" of the RadeonHD driver > 2d acceleration will be? :-) Should be soon and, according to an AMD engineer, the 2D acceleration code from older radeons should still be accepted by R500 & R600 command processor. For more interested details, check John Bridgman (bridgman) post at bottom: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-6378.html PS: I'm also an x1950 pro owner, BTW. My previous x850xt wasn't supported by our Haiku driver either, resulting into a reboot. It's unrelated but since, the card "dies": VRAM goes bad. Philippe