SuSE 9.0 Pro - stock, utd Intel P3-733 NVidia TNT-2(32) Yesterday, while trying to load a broken jpg into gimp2 and 30 minutes of 100 per cent system usage with no keyboard response, I felt it necessary to take charge with the kill switch. I was unable to kill the offending app or change to a text console. Rebooting I arrived at the NVidia splash screen, then the gray screen with the 'X' cursor and ....... no further action. I checked that XF86Config was not changed/damaged, did 'init 3' and reinstalled the nvidia driver (5336). No faults. 'init 5' and same hang at gray screen. 'init 3' and startx gives me kde and a working system, but.... tail /var/log/XFree86.1.log: (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 2X successfully initialized (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 What have I done, as I have not knowingly made any recent system changes, and what do I do to recover. ps: just recalled. I updated webmin from 1.130 to 1.150 but made no configuration changes other than the version update. tks, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos