Well played silver_shadow

Out of interest, how many polygons is the model?

OK, I was playing around a bit this week and I DO get the display delay thing- specifically, if I reverse a face, it doesn't display as reversed until I try another operation. I'm using an nVidia 6200 with the proprietary drivers that Ubuntu 7.04 installs.

No trouble in zooming/hiding/showing that I've noticed yet, although I haven't worked on a really complex model. I'm running the 32 bit version because my home pachine is a P4. The one problem I did notice was that the tool windows wouldn't dock to each other when I moved them together-in fact they behaved pretty strangely all round- not collapsing when you clikc the title bar etc. But it certainly seems functional so far.

Thanks to this thread I'm now running SketchUp on my Ubuntu partition. That Windows partition is suddenly looking a little superfluous.

Thanks for the instructions, although as Lewis observed, this is becoming more and more straightforward with newer releases of WINE.

..you can get them here: http://www.omegadrivers.net/
and again, they are unofficial drivers, please don't blame me if your computer explodes

You might have some luck using the Omega drivers for ATI- they are unofficial drivers and are not guaranteed to work but they sometimes solve this kind of issue. The best solution still seems to be an nvidia graphics card, in spite of Google saying that ATI is now fully supported.