Hi all, Thought I'd let you know that I got the following fixed: 1) Kaffeine now happily outputs sound for DVD. I changed the sound server from "auto" to "arts" and enabled the arts server under the Control Center --> Sound and Multimedia --> Sound. I then went to the shell and attempted to find the command to turn on the sound server. I typed as root "artsc-config". That didn't output anything to the screen, but it seemed to turn something on and now it works. Just for kicks, I rebooted the system to make sure it wasn't a fluke. It worked again! 2) Alsa is now fully accessible from the shell. I installed the ncurses-devel file and that helped install the various ncurses utilities that alsa has, such as alsamixer, alsaconf, etc. 3) Tiny fonts have been fixed. For some reason, when I tried to change the horizontal (or was it vertical?) frequency, sax2 did not get the correct parameters from the monitor about the screen size. Fortunately, YaST made an original file under a different filename. I beileve it was "conf.yastsave". I deleted the current conf file, copied conf.yastsave to conf, and it works like a champ again! I also fixed the boot problem that I've been having. Every other boot to SuSE, it would hang at "Loading keymap us.map.gz". I went to YaST --> Misc --> Editor for etc/sysconfig files, and went to the relevant entry for the keyboard. I then cleared out the entry for the keymap (it was set to "us.map.gz") and rebooted the system. It now boots every time, and it is also significantly faster because I turned off postfix and hwscan, neither of which was needed for my system. Hope this helps! Take care, Russ ===== Russ Goddard -- rlgoddard@yahoo.com My personal homepage -- http://www.geocities.com/rlgoddard