... and I though this was gonna be a piece o cake. <hah> Never is I guess. I have the athlon kernel that recognizes the VIA chipset (MSI KT4 Ultra) and since installing that the DVDRom no longer works in DMA mode. <wince>. I canntot get the nvidia driver to work with this system. I had this card working in a PII400 system, but was running up against the old technology wall so I decided to upgrade and let my buds talk me into trying AMD... BIG mistake I think. I'm goin' backwards here, I think. Anyone have any advice for a frustrated old SuSE user who just wants to be able to us 3D accelleration again, with a liittle speed? MoBo:MSI KT4 Ultra CPU: Athlon XP 1600 RAM PC2700 (256MB) AGP: ASUS Geforce 4 MX 9180 TD (NVidia) I'm open for suggestions, stupid things I forgot, new ideas... etc. Thanks for taking the time.... -- OnLine Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333