Hi, I have the following configuration: 256 MB DDRam - 333 (Samsung) Gigabyte K7va mb - kt 400 chipset maxtor 30 GB harddrive On board alc650 sound card Laedtek A250LE TD - 64 mb pal video card (Gforce TI 4200) Amd Athlon XP 1800+ CPU MSI 48x16x48 cdwriter LG DVD drive My problems are: with default suse 8.1 kernel I have no DMA on harddisk and dvd , But in rest the system it is stable and working OK. Also, for 3d hardware I use the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia web page (4191). But, without DMA my dvd-s are almost impossible to watch and UT2003 take for ever to start. So. I have updated my kernel to mantel 2.4.20. Now, I have DMA, sound work OK, but I am unable to make nvidia drivers to work. I have been compiled the nvidia kernel from tarball, I did the same with nvidia-s srpms... but nothing work. I have no errors when i compile the nvidia driver kernel module. The nvidia modules it is on its place, but when i type startx my screen goes blank, and i have to reset my machine to go back to prompt mode.If I use nv driver from standard xfree distribution all work OK, but without 3d..... by UT2003, by Quake3, by RTCW....etc. SO Please HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP