I'm sorry to have bothered everyone. I've decided to give up on loading openSUSE for now. Even after several years of Linux use I'm still no where near a "guru". My skill level is still along the lines of the average home computer user. I pretty much need something that just works. If you have to jump through all sorts of hoops just to get it installed, it's just not for me. I can't imagine what hoops I would have to jump through to get it working after installation. I want to thank all of you for your patient assistance. You've been a great bunch. It's not your fault. In answer to a question Felix asked. The chipset is all ATI except for the network controller, that is a realteck. The box is a basic Windows box so of course the video controller is on the main board and uses shared memory. It's really very plane vanilla as computers go. I bought it off the shelf at Wal Mart almost ten years ago on a "Black Friday" sale. If the computer was all bleeding edge hardware I would expect to have issue installing/running. This thing is very nearly an antique so it should be very well supported. Along the thread somewhere someone suggested using text mode installation. I did get that to work. However, it did not detect my Kubuntu partition for inclusion in Grub. At my skill level I have absolutely no idea how to add that partition into the Grub setup. [ 1Tbyte hard drive partitioned into two 500gig drives. One for Windows and one for Kubuntu. ] It was a bit disappointing that Kubuntu wasn't detected. Another suggestion was to try another keyboard/mouse. I did try a USB keyboard. It did absolutely nothing. Even hitting the "Numlock" key did nothing. No Numlock light or anything. Caps Lock key, same thing. Hitting "Escape" had no effect either. It's like there is no keyboard attached to the computer. No power to the keyboard, nothing. The biggest problem is probably me. I have no desire to have to dig into the guts of an OS. I just want something I can pop in a disk, load it and be off and running. For now Kubuntu does just that for me. Again, I want to thank all of you for your kind assistance. You have been great. -- “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org