Just a quick rejoinder to this nv/ati thread in defence of ATi, not in direct response to the message that this is a reply to. (I don't work for either). We have various Athlon64 notebooks here with ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 and nVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Go chips. Linux distributions used are SuSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3, 64-bit versions. We use the commercial driver for both, downloaded from the ATi's / nVIDIA's website respectively. Both work well. We haven't benchmarked either. So, for our hardware at least, both of these manufacturers give good Linux support in their commercial drivers. I can't comment about relative performance, nor about the open source drivers, since I haven't used those for a long time - since getting a GeForce FX 5600 for my desktop machine some time ago, in fact. -- Bill