noticed that the new kernels reset the runlevel and powersave configurations to defaults which is really annoying.
That should not happen. I'm confused. If you have some more details and can tell me what exactly is broken, I would appreciate it,
Since I update with every YOU update, which is quite often, I did not keep track of what exactly happend when but here is what I noticed. After initial install I had to configure the powersave feature in Yast2 to get my monitor to standby and then turn of. This was quite straight forward except I think that I had to do the setup once in Yast2 to get this going even though powersaved was running (I also created my own scheme). I know this is too vague but the bottom line is the default install would not turn of my monitor. Then after one of the recent YOU updates (not the latest problematic kernel one) the monitor powersaving stopped working. I had to go into Yast2 just go through my scheme without changing anything and hit Finish which would then result in everything working fine (I didn't change any of the options and used my old scheme). Hope this helps. Brana