As I mentioned in my post on a different subject, I'm trying to get SuSE 9.1 going on my new Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. Now the problem I have is that when I boot up Linux and get to the point of starting X, the screen fills with vertical lines. Ctl-Alt-Bksp and even Ctl-Alt-F2 fail to clear it. Clearly I have a video mode problem, which I am pretty sure I can cure if I can get into Yast. But that I have not been able to do. I boot from the installation CD and eventually have five choices: new installation, update, repair, boot installed system, and boot rescue system. I don't want to do a new installation -- Linux is already there! And as far as I can tell, none of the remaining choices give me a way of getting into Yast. Oddly, I tried "Boot installed system" and once -- just once -- I got a visible KDE screen that let me into Yast. But I chose the wrong video mode and was never able to get back there again. Specifically, I chose 1280x1024 resolution for a Dell laptop while I should have chosen 1024x768. By going into Windows afterward I determined that 1024x768 is the max resolution the display can handle. So how can I get into Yast to fix this? Paul