After installing the realplayer linux rpm from the link at the real.com site, when I invoke the player, it presents a configuration screen, which seems reasonable after a first-time install. Trouble is, the config screen is full of little square boxes where the text should be. The player itself, visible briefly behind the config boxes, seems to have normal fonts, text, etc. Without the config process, I can't get the player to do anything. I have LANG=en_US, and all my other apps seem to work fine. There's no mention of this problem in the installed help docs, or on the tech support section of the real.com site. I thought I'd ask here for experiences before poking around, as I don't have any good ideas of where to start. I notice a very extensive "known issues" file for the Linux version, and I wonder if everyone goes through a long process of fixing some of those issues, many of which seem to be missing links, or files not copied. Or is there a less-buggy version of realplayer out there that I should be looking at? Do people have better luck with the tarball? Or is there something else more Linux-native that I should be looking at to do what realplayer is supposed to do, in my case, listening to streaming audio from various sites? All the links I've seen seem to be either M$ or realaudio. Here's my setup: SuSE 7.3 distro, with KDE 2-something/Qt2, X11-3.3.6, kernel upgraded to 2.4.23, Intel P-II. I installed the realplayer rpm as root, fwiw. I can supply more config info if it'd make sense; at this point, I'm just poking around in the dark. TIA, Jim