I guess I should have included this in my original post, sorry for the additional email: I am running AMD Athlon 1.5Ghz-ish OpenSuse 10.1 KDE 3.5.x XGL-Compiz NVidia GeForce3 Proprietary Drivers Build environment is GCC 3.4.6 ( and hopefully not using any of the usual 4.1.x ) The command I am trying to execute is ./fiasco -l hello -- Thanks, MikeE