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Many thanks for the info - that's certainly a good starting point. (OT) Could I just mention that I've inadvertantly hijacked a message thread (not visible in all mail clients, it would seem) - Chadley Wilson sent a message entitled "Evolution 1.4 contact list problems" to which I initially replied, but deleted content and gave it a new subject. In my mail client (OL2003) this isn't showing, but it is in his (presumably Evolution). Could I just apologise to Chadley and encourage any Evo users to have a quick read over his mail again ;) Thanks again folks.
Unlike red hat, SuSE's patches don't break binary compatibility with the kernel.org kernels. I ran many kernel.org kernels on 8.2 and never experienced any problems with applications. The patches you are most likely to notice as missing are the framebuffer graphics on console 1 and the initial boot message logging (the system will complain about a missing TIOCGDEV, the patch can be found at http://infolinux.de/jp/), but aside from missing graphics on the console and missing boot log, your system should run just fine