Hi, There seems to be something up with your email client - everything is done as a table! Anyway... for video in, it depends on what you want to do. The likes of dvb and other such tools are good for playing with video in and personally, I use firewire to get the stuff in. The scanner is a pain in the backside - I did report this as a bug during FC3 testing, but it wasn't fixed. I normally go in as myself, su, chown paul.paul /dev/sg0 (or whatever the device is called) Some people are strange and like KDE. I never have. To change to it, select session on the login screen, select KDE and then follow the instructions on screen. HTH TTFN Paul -- "I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram with a Cilla Black fan on the bike" - Meatloaf