Hi all, I had some strange experiences, and two problems left with 12.1RC2. I installed it as a new install, formatting / and /boot , but with an existing and populated /home partition. On first install, it got till some 80% of all packages, and from then complained not being able to lock the rpm-database, because the file system was read-only. I wish I had made a note of the message immediately, so I could have been more specific. Instead I gave it another go from the start, and now everything installed fine. One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me... Two problems are left: - video: I have a two-monitor setup, on a simple Radeon HD6450-based card. Bios messages and grub-menu appear on both screens, but KDE only appears on one. When I first tried to activate the second screen by kde's system settings, I got a totally messed up second screen. But after a restart of KDE the second screen came up automagically... So far so good, but now I have re*booted*, the screen which I had designated as the first is totally messed up: a pattern of blue/white vertical lines, an the top there is about 1 mm which seems like the border of a window or something, and where one can see a tiny part of the mouse cursor moving. No task bar visible, so I'm rather in the dark, sometimes able to grasp a window from the first screen and pulling it to the second, where it is visible. krunner also lets me start programs which are visible on the second screen. - sound: I have a dedicated sound card (a Xonar Essence STX), which is seen by yast, kde-system settings and kmixer. I have set it up as default in yast, and as preferred hardware in kmixer. Test sounds and notification sounds come trough fine, but music, be it from youtube through firefox, or with kaffeine is not audible. One can see the streams from firefox or kaffeine coming up in kmixer, though... All in all, my findings are mixed, and especially the video-problems renders the system rather unusable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org