I just installed the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver on my system and I just thought that I would toss out a few comments for those people who are thinking about doing this upgrade. I have an ATI Radeom 9600XT card with 256mg in an 8X AGP slot. In Windows it can do 2D and 3D acceleration but is not particularly fast for heavy duty gaming. I mainly use this as a home business machine so that is not a big issue. It can play DVDs just fine with no dropped frames. The standard Suse Linux 10.1 driver for this card will do 2D acceleration but not 3D. I know from installing the ATI Propriety driver in Suse 10.0 that installation was a little tricky and it never did allow 3D acceleration. The installation process is much simpler this time around because you do not have to run an elaborate X11 installation and configuration routine after the install. Once the driver is installed all you have to do is run an aticonfig --initial script in your /usr/X11R6/bin directory. When you run the full ATI installer as opposed to the smaller XOrg or XFree86 packages, you have a choice of an Automatic install where it picks the package for your or do a Custom install to support either XOrg or XFree86 or to Generate a Specific Driver package based on your kernel and Linux distribution. The Generate a Specific Driver option is the most compatible with whatever your current hardware or software is so I choose that option, ran it in a terminal as root and then ran the aticonfig --initial script. Everything worked fine but 3D acceleration was still not enabled but I did have a choice of a two head display which I did not need. I rebooted the system and started up in Suse 10.1 Failsafe mode with no graphics. I logged in as root, ran YAST and when I went to change the graphics card configuration, the SAX system immediately suggested a configuration. I accepted this configuration without changing it, saved and rebooted. The SAX system correctly changed the acceleration to 3D, disabled the option for a second display, altered some font sizes and reset the AGP handling from the Agpgart system that Suse usually uses to its own setup. My card cannot fully support Xgl. It will run but the speed penalty is huge for my card. I would need a new high end graphics card to support Xgl fully. If you want Xgl, I would suggest only using a card on their official hardware compatibility list. Good luck on your own fiddling Ralph Ellis