mouse and glx problems

[nychef]

I'm using a dell Inspiron 8100 p3 1ghz, 128mb ram with kernel 2.5.68-mm1. it has both a touchpad and a trackstick. The touchpad is no problem, but the trackstick rarely works (once in 8 boots since I compiled 2.5.6. I never had this problem with the 2.4 series. Attached is part of dmesg. Any suggestions would be great.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Trying to free free IRQ12
Trying to free free IRQ12
Trying to free free IRQ12
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

Also GLX performance is horrible (geoforce2go), I checked xdpyinfo and glx, nv-glx, and nvidia-glx are all there, my xfree86 log has no glx errors. I tried using and not using both apm and acpi and have the same problem with both. I had the glx problem with the 2.4 kernels, and with slackware, so I know it's not a gentoo specific problem. The only errors I have regarding video are the following lines from my kernel log
Apr 27 03:14:09 [kernel] nvidia: no version magic, tainting kernel.
Apr 27 03:14:09 [kernel] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Apr 27 03:14:09 [kernel] 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4349 Thu Mar 27 19:00:02 PST 2003
Apr 27 03:14:11 [kernel] bad: scheduling while atomic!
Apr 27 03:14:11 [kernel] 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
Apr 27 03:15:05 [kernel] bad: scheduling while atomic!
Apr 27 03:15:05 [kernel] 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table

And, one more thing... does anyone know about dell having broken bioses? I get the following line on bootup
Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.

Sorry my post was so long, maybe I should have split it into two posts, I'm a little new to this whole forum thing.
--Norbert