A. my screen flickers constantly, with random garbage shooting across as lines. Looks like a too high screen resolution setting but this is NOT fixed by choosing a lower setting! the graphics card and monitor are correct in sax2. B. Yast2 goes into infinate sleep <defunct> when i try to use it to select packages that aren't installed. It upgrades just fine and I've already done so. I'm using SuSE 8.2, installed 6-12-03 and updated 6-13-03 using Yast2. I'm using a Pentium 400mhz machine, 8 gig drive, realtek nic, and ensoniq ES1371 sound card. C. oh yes, the sound card refuses to install. I have the same problem in all other linux distro's and i've tried 12 others. Time to buy a different card? The only thing I've successfully done is a manual update to qt3- 3.2.0 which was the only recommended fix for yast2 problems that i could find on the internet. thanks!