Comment 3 for bug 379327

Sometimes Sear hangs when creating a new character. It doesn't seem to receive the correct trigger that the character has been created and we can enter the world.
However, restarting Sear should show your new character in the available list.

If you still have problems, try running a console command (press back-tick ` - you may need to make sure the text fields in the GUI do not have focus) and run the following command after you have logged into a server;

/create wesley settler male desc

This should accomplish the same thing as the GUI.

If you already have a character created try the "/take" command. This will use the first character in the available list.

In terms of graphics problems, my own ATI has huge rendering corruption with the opensource(mesa) drivers in Fedora 10.