So I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to redhat 9 on my home workstation (from 7.0)... [click below for details]The installation was trivial, however it required that I free about 700megs from my /usr which was quite a challenge.

My G400 seems to be working in accelerated mode, though I did have to install Matrox's own mgadriver to get the right DRI module for HW accel...