About 2 months ago I replaced SuSE 9.3 with 10.3. Last Friday I turned on my laptop. To my dismay the screen was messed up... sort of divided into three areas with wrapped up boundaries. The pointer position in any of the 3 area was no more mapped to what actually was selected. Therefore by clicking randomly (apparently on selected icons) a lot of applications were opened up. I was desperate as I could not send any email. I could eventually start mozilla using the arrows but could not point at the address field. I was afraid it would be a video card problem. No store where they sell computers/electronic devices would take care of my laptop as I bought it from GamePC . I finally was put in contact with a guy who runs his own company which provides computers assistance. He came with a monitor and knoppix Linux (as I suggested). This allowed us to exclude any video card problem. Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. In short I had to reinstall SuSE 10.3 which fixed the problem. But the serious difficulty was to save three directories where I have all my recent developments. I thought through knoppix I could mount both the internal and external hard drive and make copies. Apparently knoppix mounts the peripherals in a read-only mode (???) so .. forget about it. Fortunately I have a web site on a remote server. So from the simple text- mode I could compress and ftp my directories to my web site from which I could recover them after reinstalling SuSE 10.3 As a consequence I fell behind my schedule. To prevent future emergencies I am thinking of getting another laptop/notebook. Since I have to use MS Office every now and then I would consider to run alternatively Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable and reliable ? Thank you, Maura Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org