Top plaudits for the 8.1 install, very very smooth and fast, also correctly set up obscure things like an epson 2450 Perfection USB scanner without prompting. It also offered to set up 3d acceleration without depressing advice that it would probably ruin anything. This pc has a nvidia tnt card (16MB Creative Labs one), so in fact it kind of lied about that, and when I went to check the 3d status I was advised to go to YOU and get the nvidia drivers. This process was incredibly well handled, swift and painless, so more congrats to SuSE for that. 3d works, joy, I can now play tux racer and it works well. But fonts in kde are a little bit of a puzzle - the default, Nimbus sans, clearly is anti-aliasing, but has some ugly deformations of the minims and vertical strokes, particularly in capitals where the strokes of w, y etc. are over-thick to the point of looking a bit poor. I've always preferred Helvetica, so I chose that for Kmail. Looks beautiful in the font preview window when you're choosing it, once applied, pixelated to unreadability. Turns out every font but Nimbus (which also looks beatiful in the font preview window) is unusably poor once selected, much worse than when anti-aliasing was a distant dream in earlier SuSE versions. Screen rewriting in Konsole also seems surprisingly slow, something I've never had trouble with before on this machine. Can regular nvidia driver users tell me whether this is a feature of the driver? Or suggest any solutions to get fonts looking nicer? Best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk