Listmates, I should have stayed with xorg 7.2, but I just had to load 7.3. I'll learn one of these days. The problem. compiz was working in 7.2 with the 8.42 ati driver. Now compiz will not load with fusion-icon anymore and a compiz --replace & gives the black screen on death. After installing 7.3 I went ahead and rebuilt and reinstalled the 8.42 driver. fglrx loads fine and gives the same good (for my laptop) frame rates with glxgears and fgl_glxgears: 14:07 rankin-p35a~> glxgears 13088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2617.559 FPS 13216 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2642.825 FPS 14:08 rankin-p35a~> fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 2758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 551.600 FPS 2827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 565.400 FPS 14:08 rankin-p35a~> fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release I have configured the libraries the same as required to use compiz with 7.2: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-11-06 20:33 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-11-08 00:10 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-11-08 10:10 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 391344 2007-09-21 20:34 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.sav -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 440676 2007-09-21 20:34 /usr/lib/libIndirectGL.so.1.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-11-06 20:33 /usr/lib/libIndirectGL.so.1.sav -> libIndirectGL.so.1.2 fusion-icon will start, but if I select compiz as the WM, compiz never loads. As mentioned above, a manual attempt to start compiz from the console results in a hardlock. Any thoughts on what I can check? Also, if I can't get 7.3 to work, can I just uninstall 7.3 and reinstall 7.2 vi yast? Is there an easier way? Thanks for any help you can give me. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org