Hail and well met, Mark > 1) Is this the right place for kernel internals questions? I have no idea...but I'll try to answer your questions anyway. If I get scolded, so be it. > 2) I noticed this morning that my GLMatrix screensaver is not > working any more. Open up a terminal window while X is running and type: /usr/bin/glxinfo | grep direct In a kind world, the response will be "direct rendering: Yes". If you don't get that response then possibly your driver is b0rked again or there's a problem in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Perhaps you could run /usr/sbin/nvidia-xconfig. > 3) Now that I mention it, I’m still having trouble running the > display configuration settings applet (it comes and asks for the root > password, then disappears). What’s up with that? This happens here at > work and also at home…. I think the command you can use in the terminal is /usr/sbin/nvidia-settings. It might give you an error report. > 4) With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3, this > one had to be the difficult one. It’s my old C: partition from which I > used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung > somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings it > back. I got nothin'. :( Give cpio a shot? What's your tar command? I've never attempted such a conversion. Winter