Hi all This is my third day using SuSE, and I'm beginning to accomodate, but these first three days were NOT as one would wish to have his first days at a new distro. Funny thing: on my very first start of kde, an error appeared, it was even before kde could give mi it's "tipps on the start". Don't remember it, I was just laughing. http://www.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/IBM tried to convince me, that with the IBM Thinkpad T40p everything was "good to go". But that's just not true. Ethernet and Sound work out of the box, bluetooth works after starting the bluetooth protocol stack services. For the wireless card an Atheros which needs madwifi drivers, you have to get an external kernel source (nongpl), this is nowhere written on opensuse.org AND video is not working meaning: I can't play DVD's, the message is: no plugin for the MRL found. Power Management is partially working: The light get's darker when I pull the plug BUT the cpu clockspeed is always on 598MHz, which can only be a bad joke. It should be there ONLY if the cable is unplugged. (I have 1600MHz at maximum, but not with the power management under openSuSE) Well, I can't complain too hard, these green arrows are for Suse9.3 but anyway. Printing does not work on my HP Color Laser Jet 1500, which should be connected over lpr on another machine(attached on usb port). I also had to use a special ppd file and the foomatic driver in gentoo for that, but in openSuSE there seems to be the same issue: It's not working out of the box, you need something else (eg. from linuxprinting.org). Not working means: I send a printing command to the printer and it's lamp blinks for a moment and then does nothing and the printing command is deleted. Next point is that I can't get entrance or enlightenment to work. under gentoo I could easily change under /etc/rc.conf which displaymanger was used. Now openSuSE seems to have another way but does not tell me which one. I went over to runlevel services under yast, activated entrance but nothing moved. Btw what is earlykdm? kdm just with a cooler name? :) I also hate the image on grub.. *shrug keep it simple, the same goes to the kde background, why not just use the standard kde background? I don't need to see, that I'm on SuSE, because I set up SuSE and I know that there's a difference between kde and SuSE... I get the feeling that you use kde but nowhere write it's name on the startup... there isn't even the K StartMenu, it's that gecko smile... The positive parts: it's hell of a good feeling if openoffice installs within 3 minutes and it's as fast or even a bit faster starting up than under gentoo (where the installation(compilation) took the same time...just in days). The Community is nice, in the mailing list you get friendly answers within very few time. I also like the way, how installation of packages with the conflicts are done, mainly I really like Yast2. Hotplug works good, but i'd rather see the usbstick in media:/ folder instead of in /media/usbstick but that's a detail. The SuSE watcher seems to be for windows XP migrants :) but oh well, nice to have... apache2 works, all these processes just have to be activated first. So much to that. I am aware, that I'm using openSuSE10.0RC1 and thus should be aware that it's not bug free, but there are a little too many things not working for my gusto.. Best regards Patrick