Make sure you install your video card drivers. Almost no distro; just like Windows, does not install the vendor(s) (ATI, NVIDIA etc..) drivers for you. You must install them manually. If you have an ATI video card then follow my tutorial on the opensuse wiki http://en.opensuse.org/ATI If you have an nVidia video card then go here and download the driver also follow their instructions... Another easy way is to just use the 1-click install. You can use 1-click-install that will install the latest ATI or nVidia drivers: ATI [Image: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/21/1-click.png ] (http://opensuse-community.org/ati.ymp) nVidia [Image: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/21/1-click.png ] (http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp)