\_ I have seen several utilities that do this for DOS (cringe!) and \_ actually load device drivers in that memory space... but I havn't \_ wandered across one for linux. I imagine that it could probably be done \_ though with some driver re-rewrites .. or even make a device for it and \_ use it like a ramdisk (highly swank)... The problem with it is that it \_ will have slow access compared to standard ram, since it has to wander \_ across a slow pci or agp bus, It'd be faster than pci to disk, no? \_ and if you ever want to enter a graphics \_ mode, you will have to completely remove that segment from use. Not necessarily for two reasons: 1) low resoution (800x600x8) on a high-mem card 2) ooooo...look at the pretty picture fixed hard right bottom on my screen We could package it and call it a screen saver with computational hacks. :-) David