Oh man, just about every post above mine has an answer but mine''s still unreplied to. The way I see things is that when an opengl app (like the tutorials) is executed, it is being accelerated behind the scenes by the gl-enabled video card. Yet when i run these tutorials (which are fairly simple when compared to some of the games out there) they run _very_ slow. What more do I need to do to get these accelerated by the onboard hardware? Or is it the video card drivers? Thanks!

Did you check the GL_VENDOR string to see if it is currently Hardware or not ?