Regarding the ims tt I am inpressed that you got one.  It worked on the installation till yast restarted the machine. 
apparently yast2 does a poor default(vga ) if it does not find a card it wants. 
There is a note about this in the suse database.  It
worked perfectly in 7.1 , but again thanks for working on it.
One other thought, do you need beta testers, some
of the folks on this list would probably be helpful.