First, the problem. Due to a glitch/powersurge/young-un kicking the case (I'm not sure which) I lost my ability to go into X. To fix, I re-installed X from the SuSE 8.0 CD. Lather, rinse, repeat. Didn't work. I retried with a *new* install (but not wiping the drive--I have too much stuff in there, including OOffice). This brought me to the famous graphical login--which froze. I reinstalled the NVidia drivers from the CD (update), which allowed me to login from the graphical login, but my graphics are now slow. I re-install the new NVidia drivers (which always worked before), but, again, frozen graphical login. Lather, rinse, repeat. Tweaked with new NVidia drivers AND turned off (I thought) the graphical login (I do NOT like it, never have, and yast2 didn't give me a choice...). System was fine until the next day when I turned the machine on and it FROZE AT THE GRAPHICAL LOGIN THAT I HAD TURNED OFF!!! To fix, I had to repeat the above process--but I am NOT reinstalling the new NVidia drivers until I can guarentee that the graphical login is shut off. So, now, the questions. 1. Is there a key-press sequence I can use to bypass/turn-off the graphical login before it comes up? 2. Am I missing anything in the settings to cause these lock-ups? The new NVidia drivers worked well for 3 months but now are costing me *way* too much time. 3. Is there any way I can get my Yast1 back? Yast2, while slick and pretty, doesn't allow me to abort to a prompt (to fix problems) and hides too many things. 4. Finally, what could I have done to streamline this process initially? The initial problem seemed to be in a /tmp/lock* file--could I have just deleted the /tmp directory? Thanx.