Compilation problem SuSE 9.0

Hi

I have problem running R (tried 1.8.0 and 1.7.1) under a fresh installed SuSE 
9.0 using default settings: I'm not able to send plots to the monitor. Only 
postscript graphs are produced in external files. When assigning 
options(device='X11') and then plotting I get the message "Error in X11() : 
X11 is not available".

Since this occured using the r-cran binary I tried to compile from source. 
However, the problem was not resolved. I do not have the competence for 
interpreting the output from the configure and make commands. Running the 
 ./configure  (also tried  ./configure --with-x) I read the following line:

checking for X... no

and at the bottom:

R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu

? Source directory: ? ? ? ? ?.
? Installation directory: ? ?/usr/local

? C compiler: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -g -O2
? C++ compiler: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?g++ -mieee-fp -g -O2
? Fortran compiler: ? ? ? ? ?g77 -mieee-fp -g -O2

? Interfaces supported:
? External libraries: ? ? ? ?readline
? Additional capabilities: ? PNG, JPEG, bzip2, PCRE
? Options enabled: ? ? ? ? ? R profiling

? Recommended packages: ? ? ?yes

Thankful for any help on this matter.