Okay, I found the little 'hidden' icon during boot-up that allows me to switch to/from KDE/Gnome... Meanwhile Fyi re. display resolutions: I just found that simply entering into menu "Applications, System, Display", then tab "Hardware" for "Video Cards" and specifying the "vesa - Generic VESA-compliant video cards" gi ves us all the fine resolution levels we could ask for, even with a ATI-Radeo n 9000. i.e.: I'm running with 1280x1024 now. -no ati-x11-drv... Thanks. -I think I'm done here. Al