Hi, I am running the 174 build of the current 2.4.18 kernel from the mantel directory. I tried both the 183 build and the currently available 234 build - these both show the same problems: - I get SCSI emulation for my DVD drive (which is totally useless and messes up my symlinks /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom) - I get a lot of permissions turned to something like 'paranoid' E.g. I can no longer enter several /dev subdirectories as user. - Bash by clicking on the shell in the KDE panel no longer works as user, only as root; - Starting YaST2 as user asks me for the password, when I'm finished entering it, it says: "The program 'su' is not found! Make sure your PATH is set correctly." Then it quits. I mean, su is in /bin and /bin is in $HOME/.profile in the PATH section, so that's crap:-) I got two boxen, one of them never saw a later kernel than the 174 build, and the other one has got the problems since I tried the 183 kernel, and now once more with the 234 build. Btw, I can solve the SCSI emulation problem by going back to the 174 build. The other problems remain, whereas, of course, the permission issue can be solved 'easily' with chmod. Anyone has come across this too? Any ideas? Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net