James PEARSON wrote:

Thinker said...

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1. as root, at a shell type # SuSEconfig, 2. restart X (not sure how to do this without rebooting the machine. anyone ?)

I took Thinkers advice as I read it first and ran SuSEconfig , rebooted and that solved my problem. Thank you. I was surprised (and more that a bit embarassed by my dumb question) that it was as easy as that.

I still don't understand all the things that SuSEconfig does (or can do)...

---- <text deleted> ---- if you look in at the shell script in "/sbin/SuSEconfig" you can get more of an ideas of what SuSEconfig does. "YOU" runs SuSEconfig after it downloads packages. So does fou4s, (after I use "kpackage" I do "SuSEconfig". I don't know if Apt-get does ??? I usually run "# SuSEconfig --verbose" and ofter if I downloaded "new stuff capture the output using stdout, i.e. as root: "# SuSEconfig 2>&1 | tee /home/"user-name"/text.txt" HTH. Gar __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455