I had the proprietary driver running in Fedora once, but I got rid of it for a number of good reasons, probably the most obvious of which is that my card is no longer supported, so I have to use the radeon driver. Yes, ATI cards suck as far as Linux goes. If you REALLY want to try, though, I suggest using Livna and installing the RPM's for the proprietary drivers. I can't help you any more than that, though, because as I said, I don't use it anymore. Oh, BTW, you can get 3D from the radeon driver (in fact, I'd say the radeon driver gives better 3D than the proprietary driver on most ATI cards, considering I can run AIGLX on radeon and not on fglrx); you just don't get direct rendering. But if you're using AIGLX, you don't get direct rendering anyway, and really it doesn't improve performance much. If you want a BAD card, try the SiS in my laptop. No DRI at all, so 3D is a dream. If I run a program that uses OpenGL period, X literally blows up. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html