After I got my new 9.1 professional last week I kept sitting on it due to lack of time and the fear and trepidation that always comes with a new SuSE version. Well, today seems like a good day to die, so I took the plunge. The first system I was going to install it on was my old Dell Latitude C600 which is a triple-boot Win98/W2k/SuSE9.0 system. When I first got it I put 8.0 on it which went pretty well. That was followed with 8.1, 8.2, and finally 9.0 in time. The upgrade to 9.0 ended up to be impossible to do on this system so I went with a clean fresh install which still left lots to be desired. For example, 9.0 didn't recognize the display resolution. Well, now it is time to see whether 9.1 does better... 1. observation: system upgrade went quickly and smoothly up to the point where the system was to boot up to the console. Then I discovered that 9.1 had left my keyboard behind. No response whatsoever. This was even more surprising as I was able to use the keyboard to search for packages during the install process. So much for initial hardware recognition and automatic setup... 2. cold boot and try again: In order to get back into the "installation loop" of YaST I selected a small package to be installed that wasn't before during the "upgrade install". After getting into YaST I then chose to configure my display first and correct the wrong size. I checked the keyboard and that seemed to be fine. After finishing with YaST I was able to use the keyboard and still have no idea why it wouldn't let me do that during the first try. 3. So far so good. I guess the real test comes sometime later this week when I will attempt to upgrade my modified Dell Optiplex G1. 9.0 was a bear to install. I'll see whether 9.1 is doing better. Cheers, Alex.