Hello.

I have knoppix installed to my hard drive. (As Debian-like [recommended]) I would like to occasionally play some of the great games out there on my new debian installation. I tried Wine, even compiled it myself. Then I tried games for Linux. They all seem to have a hard time with my graphics card.

No problem, says I, there must be a new driver. Its probably Linux specific.

There sure is. as long as you dont mind old (1980's version) 2D games. If you want to have any 3D games they recommend you compile it yourself. Again, no problem.

(I have an ATI 9200 raedon, BTW...)

However, a requirement for compiling the new driver is you must have XFree86 on your system. Running Synaptic tells me this is readily available - but when I prepare to download and install it it tells me it has to remove a few things first. Like, for instance, everything about the KDE desktop (in fact, about 20 or 30 things that start with KDE)

Do you believe I should go ahead and remove the only Linux GUI I understand so far and have this capability or is there an alternative?

Sorry about the long-winded question. I really do like Knoppix and I am starting to think that Windows might not be around for too much longer.