Well, wasn't going to try this nVidia driver on node1 until I had it working 100% on node2, but I did. Same problem(s) on both boxes. Am booting the latest kernel from up2date (2.6.6-1.435-2.3) and have the 6106 nVidia driver. I wanted to be sure I did not have a bad video card, but both machines give identical results. startx with nv works great just no 3D and since that is the purpose of this build I need the nv is unsatisfactory. Using the nvidia driver with dri line removed gives garbage splash screen when start and the pointer/cursor is a square of graphic garbage. Usable, but ugly as sin. Adding line to turn off HWCursor and turn on SWCursor does get rid of the garbage, but as soon as you move the mouse there is no pointer at all. Oh it's there. Ya jus' can't see it. The hardware setup again is: Twin Dual PII 266MHz DTK motherboard 259mb RAM PS/2 KVM with LT Marble FX and Memorex Keyboard Twins are bonding on 192.168.2.0 through eth0 and eth1 node1 has eth2 to network 192.168.1.0 and internet Am really on the virge of scrapping this install and trying FreeBSD. Help! GregS <><