There may have been problems in the past with installing the ATI proprietary driver, but for me these days it has all worked VERY easily: To install (as root): - go to the ATI site and download the ati-driver-installer for linux - run it with 'sh' and generate the .rpm for SuSE 10.0 - use 'rpm' to install the generated .rpm file - the only difficulty might be in needing to use fglrxconfig (with all those questions) to set up xorg.conf for the driver. But once I had a xorg.conf (which I checked against the configuration file I had been using before) that worked with the ATI driver, I haven't bothered to run fglrxconfig again, despite subsequent kernel and driver upgrades. Note: do __not__ use SaX (or YaST) to edit the xorg configuration - they will screw up what the ATI driver needs. Or after upgrading the SuSE kernel (as root): - configure the kernel sources (excerpt) - cd /usr/src/linux - rm -f .config - make cloneconfig - make prepare-all - run 'fglrx-kernel-build.sh' To verify (following a reboot): - run 'fglrxinfo'. If it says 'ATI', the driver is installed and working; if it says 'Mesa', the driver install failed somewhere. - proof of the pudding: run 'glxgears' and check the frame rate mikus