Gain, I meant the Direct Rendering Infrastructure support in X11 just in terms of supporting direct memory access of the graphics card. Regarding performance, my main question was whether loading the fglrx kernel module on an ATI PCIE card would yield the same roughly 10 fold speed improvement in benchmarks such as glxgears over what one gets without the fglrx kernel module being loaded. Unless there are major problems with using the latest fglrx drivers with FC3, I am leaning towards the ATI solution. Jack