VMware 3.1.1 seg faults on SuSE 8.2

I did a clean install of SuSE 8.2, installed VMware from the DVD, ran vmware-config.pl. All the services start nicely. But as soon as VMware boots a virtual machine it seg faults (before reaching the BIOS part). I have an Athlon. I had to do a "cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig && make dep clean" in order for vmware-config.pl to compile the appropriate modules. Anyone else with this problem?