Well I just down loaded the image and looked at the config file. Looks like your problem is probably your video card. Let me guess it's an Nvidia or ATI rage card? If you say ramdisk vga=normal speakup_synth=xxxx you should have better results. Distros have started to use the framebuffer in the kernel by default. Unfortunately the mode that was selected doesn't work on some video cards. Let me know if you need any more help. -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com