Thanks for all the tips. I'm looking forward to getting home to have another crack at it. Please be assured that I have tried the basic: A. Download the drivers. <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run" target="_blank">http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/NVIDIA-Linux- x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run</a> B. init 3. C. Execute the installation script. D. Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf Under section Device, Replace 'Driver "nv"' with 'Driver "nvidia"' E. init 5. Tonight I think that I will try a full: yum update to get everything up to the latest. Although this will send me to kernel 2.6.13 which haven't people had trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work on? its a 500mb install and I don't want to do it unless it is going to help. You have given me a few more things to try so thanks and hopefully tonight I will have some luck. Christopher your post was rich in content and I look forward to trying your install method as well.