OK. 1. This is probably not the best place to talk about Nvidia graphics (Nvidia's linux user site is probably a better place. 2. Make sure you are running the kernel where you want to install the Nvidia binary driver. If you try to install it on another kernel, then boot into the one you want, either the driver won't find the correct source files, or (if you just compiled the kernel) you will get a huge amount of permissions errors (every application will only want to run as root). 3. To install a 71.67 nvidia driver on a running system, you first need to kill the X server. To do that open /etc/inittab and find a line (probably the very last one in the file) that looks like this: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon and comment it out (so that it looks like this) #x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon save the file. Then run /sbin/init q (your x window will die, you won't have to kill it) now comes the part where you load the nvidia driver. Remember before you start the driver installation, for the 71.67 driver you have to run /sbin/modprobe -q agpgart (nvidia promises they will write a wrapper for the next driver that does it automatically). Now start the driver installation. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run when it's finished, you will want to start the x server. Before you start it though, you will have to make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is correct for your nvidia binary driver. There are instructions over at http://www.gmpf.de/index.php/Main_Page which give you more information. There are also instructions for getting GLX based applications to work. When you have a correct /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, you can restart the x server by un-commenting the line in /etc/inittab so that it looks like this: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon and then run /sbin/init q (your x server will start and give you a graphical login prompt). Be sure to backup your nvidia /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (make a backup file called xorg.conf.nvidia for example). The biggest reason for this is that if the nvidia driver ever doesn't want to start (for whatever reason), when your system boots, it will attempt to start the x server using a generic nvidia (2D) driver. If it's successful, it will overwrite xorg.conf (and all your changes for the nvidia driver will be lost). Cheers! -- Bob Gill <gillb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>