You definitely want hardware acceleration if you are going to play games. This is provided by the DRI module. First check your XF86Config file under: Section "Module" there should be and entry Load "DRI" there should also be another entry load "glx". If they are there then tail the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file following system start up. You should see a message such as Direct rendering enabled. If not then DRI is configured but failing for some reason. Should be an error message in the in the same log. If you do not have it I would suggest you begin by going to http://dri.sourceforge.net/ and looking at the documentation section. There is a DRI beginners guide and a DRI user guide. The documentation will talk about MTRR and AGP. in RH 7.1 and 7.2 these things are already enabled. No need to compile the kernel. VOODOO3 should work with XFree86-4.1 Of course I got the same sense about the ATI card but I finally ended up with XFree86-4.2 which got a lot more complicated. Let us know how it goes. -- Paul Overby xpoverby at attbi.com