Version 9.0 worked almost "out of the box" with very few tweaks required. However, I have been trying 9.1 and am having all sorts of problems with it. For example, a clean install gives me the error message: bash: /dev/nul: permission denied (this line three times) whenever I run a terminal. This has been sorted by my altering the dev/nul permissions. However, there are still several error messages whenever I try to run anything from the terminal. Not had this happen before! However, the main problem I have found is that I can't get my Epson 1240U scanner to work. SUSE 9.0 found it and it worked perfectly. If I run xsane or xscanimage, they can't find the scanner. So I have set it up with YAST (installation didn't find it!). If I run xsane as a user, it still can't find the scanner. However, using a terminal and ignoring all the error messages, if I run xsane as ROOT, it runs and scans. After that, I can run it as a user until I shut down the computer. When I start the computer again, I have to run xsane as ROOT again before I can run it as a user. Very frustrating! I have re-installed 9.1 three times, and each time I get the same problems. I then did a clean installation of 9.0. Everything (including the scanner) worked. But after an upgrade, the scanner had disappeared again and I was back to manually installing it and running ROOT first. I have checked and re-checked permissions in xsane, sane.d and the epson config file in sane.d. They are all OK. Also, I have installed all the patches. I'm lost! Has anyone else come across this problem, please? Many thanks Keith