Hi All, Unlike the prior quiet running 11.4 (x86_64/GNOME2) installation I had on this system, 12.3 (x86_64/KDE) is exhibiting the following: a) At installation via DVD, the system hung almost immediately at udev. Typing 'acpi=off' before selecting 'Installation' circumvented the hang. b) 12.3 is beautiful, and fast! Thanks everyone! I love it :-) But I seem to have lost correct sensor driven GPU fan control. It now has only two speeds ... loud and loudest o_O. It starts out in 'loudest' mode then eventually drops to 'loud'. Very annoying. c) Selecting 'Leave' then 'Shut down' works right up to the point where nothing is mounted, no processes are running and the system is not in any way responsive ... but it does not power-off. Pressing and holding the power button briefly turns it off. (Interestingly, 'Leave' and 'Restart' works.) The system is an ASUS laptop, model X83VB-X1, with nVidia GeForce 9300M GS graphics adapter (512 MB video RAM.) The mainboard is an 'N80VB (ver. 1)'. It's configured with 4 GB RAM and an internal 500 GB SATA HD. These symptoms strike me as related to ACPI (and to the 'acpi=off' invocation at install.) After a bit of research, I followed the steps described here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810344 (03/19/2013, 12.3, status "NEW"; "Summary: fancontol not starting") No joy. Just these afterward from '# systemctl list-units' (results wrapped by me): lm_sensors.service loaded active exited Initialize hardware monitoring sensors cpufreq.service loaded failed failed LSB: CPUFreq modules loader fancontrol_local.service loaded failed failed Initialize fancontrol There's also this: # fancontrol --help Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ... Error: Can't read configuration file [Related, but tangential: Under 11.4 GNOME2, I ran a taskbar applet which graphically displayed the activity of each core, side by side, in addition to the CPU operating frequency. It usually ran at 800 MHz and only peaked 'on demand' nicely at 2.0 GHz -- and I could tell this by the sound of the fans. Is there a KDE equivalent to that applet available? I like being able to tell at a glance when the system is peaking 'on demand.'] These are the _only_ wrinkles remaining to be ironed out on this otherwise beautiful installation. I'd like to avoid burning out the GPU and/or it's fan while undergoing my combined 12.3 / KDE / systemd learning curve. Ideas and suggestions will be gratefully appreciated. TIA & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org