Hello, I was too lazy to search the archive, so please excuse me if this was allready asked on the list. I've just build a double opteron machine and am testing various distributions. SuSE 10 installed well enough but there is one "problem" that I did not dee with any other distro (I've tried Gentoo and Kubuntu so far, as well as Mepis in 32 bit): after the initial boot, when the system starts loading KDE, the screen remains black for approximately 30 seconds, then KDE loads. My thought is that it has to do with starting X - but I don't understand where the problem is. My card is an Nvidia 6600 GT. Any idea, hint? Thanks, Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa