Rene Gallati wrote: [...]

Well never say never, there may yet be some master bug forcing a version jump. Or what was the reason that there was a switch from 2.6.4 (SuSE 9.1 default installation) to the current 2.6.5 version ?

It's not that I absolutely must have a SuSE 2.6.8.1 kernel for 9.1, I can install and patch it myself, but somehow I always feel safer using a SuSE kernel (odd I know :) ) There is just one disconcerting problem I have on a box at a customer and potentially 2.6.8.1 may fix it for me because there were some changes in the involved driver.

Be aware that 2.6.8 and also 2.6.8.1 will kill CD-burning and ripping (at least for non-Root Users). There was/is a lot of discussion about that in suse-linux / suse-multimedia. So it doesn't matter which Kernel you choose: There will be some problems with each Kernel. Mayby your hardware/software is affected; maybe not. But definitly each of them has bugs. Andreas