G'day ladies 'n' gents. I have SuSE 8.1 installed on my hard disk, and I can run it well enough to be writing this message in KMail, so that means I'm past the point where SuSE Support would be willing to help. :-) My machine is a random collection of totally obscure parts that nobody has ever heard of, so I suppose it's no wonder that things don't work. - Athlon 1.1 - 512MB - IBM 40G hard disk x2 - Plextor PlexWriter CD-R/W - Pioneer 116 DVD - ATI Rage 128Pro video - on-motherboard-AC97 sound - Microsoft Sidewinder Precision2 USB joystick For the first time ever, YaST actually thought I might be able to use 3D video (i.e., selection not grayed out) ... so I said 'Yes'. I ran Tuxracer once, which gave me an interface that looked like the intro-screen for a DVD movie, and it was full-screen. The joystick was not available, so I had to use mouse steering. After killing the little guy, I tried to exit. System frozen. Keyboard input not accepted. Screen goes black and I can't get to consoles. Hard reboot and login my alternate user. This time, Tuxracer is in a small window, and the game-space looks like it was designed in 1991. This time, I kill the little herring-sucker in a lava-pit. The system freezes again, with no keyboard response. Where should I begin looking for the trouble -- or is my hardware too obscure and weird to be properly supported? /kevin