Ok. I have been able to capture the output after winecfg is run, after I removed wine with the rm -rvf ~/.wine command. This output happens before Ubuntu logs me off: wine: created the configuration directory '/home/rick/.wine' fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cf94 fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\gecko\\0.9.1\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x33c960 (nil) fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x2dae908, overlapped 0x2dae910): stub fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\gecko\\0.9.1\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x33ca50 (nil) 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xul.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssutil3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\ssl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\js3250.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssckbi.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plds4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\smime3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nss3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plc4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssdbm3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plugins\npnul32.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\softokn3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\freebl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xpcom.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\sqlite3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found 0[19dd08]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nspr4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 1988 requests (1986 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 447 requests (408 known processed) with 0 events remaining. err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out As for manual 'compile' of Ubuntu.. it clearly states in the FAQ that you shouldn't try this if you are not a programmer or 'faint of heart'.. well I'm not a programmer.. So I think I'll pass. I believe i have done enough to mess my system up. According to Ubuntu, I'm not running any propietary drivers for my graphics card. I believe it's the VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP family and the drivers are S3 graphics drivers for windows. I don't know if they would work with Ubuntu/Linux. I'll try to google and come up with the right ones and do the install. Again, I'm running a dual-boot Grub and Ubuntu is on a spearate HDD from Windows XP. I suspect that hardware drivers for the Ubuntu OS are NOT windows drivers and are NOT proprietary. I don't know what section in the Synaptic pkg mgr has the specific drivers listed for my hardware. Its difficult for me to determine. But i'd like to try and re-install the drivers. Thanks for any more help or intelligence you have on this. Rick (shobuz99) My Distro is Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04