I'm trying to eliminate the problems I've been having with my system lately. Because they happened 'suddenly', as in overnight, I'm now thinking hardware. I took out my SB Live! card and my GeForce GT210 PCIe card and now I'm actually able to type without it looking like I couldn't even spell the word 'I'. No more problem(s) with the letters keeping up with my typing or jumping ahead or adding 2 and 3 characters (which made it almost impossible to type in my root password when I needed to get into YAST). Anyway, onto the subject...the kernel that's installed on my (this) stock install is the kernel 'desktop'. In YAST software management, I see all kinds of 'kernels', but the explanation(s) of each aren't very helpful in my determining which one *should* be installed. My system: ASRock N68-S MOBO (luckily with onboard video!) 2GB DDR2 RAM (I memtested this last night and the RAM is fine) Athlon II X2 240 Dual-core processor (Is this a 64bit or not?) DVD burner and of course the SB Live! soundcard (which I hope isn't the culprit for all these problems lately!) Of all the kernels that are listed (desktop, coverage, default, rt, PAE, ec2, trace, vanilla), which would actually be the best for my system? I use this thing as my music player (got me some really, really nice 500W 5.1 speakers), watching DVD's, experimenting with software (nothing fancy, just if it looks interesting I'll try it. If it doesn't work I uninstall it.), just an everyday user I guess, no huge scientific stuff or graphics work (other than BOINC SETI@home...I run this 24/7/365). Thanks for any suggestions or pointers where I might be able to read up on this stuff that a *layman* can understand...no 'man' pages please! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org