Those are ATI drivers for XFree 4.3.0 with full Xvideo support. Don't even bother if your card is not an ATI card. To see whether you need these drivers, look at the output of xdpyinfo xvinfo If there is no XVideo extension in xdpyinfo, or if xvinfo does not mention something like: Number of image formats: 4 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) you probably need them. Once the package is installed, just edit your xorg.conf file, to add ${PREFIX}/lib/X11/modules, e.g., ModulePath "${PREFIX}/lib/X11/modules" ModulePath "${X11BASE}/lib/modules"