Top of the morning to yous SuSE fans, I have installed SuSE 10.0 (boxed set) on my HP S7400N Pavilion Slimline, triple boot (WinXP, HP PC Recovery, SuSE 10), and have the machine running nicely including accelerated graphics to a Samsung 713v flatpanel. I love this tiny machine 1.6Ghz, 160GB HD, 512M main memory, 3D graphics 128M, DVD+R/RW lightwrite. Very nice, and very small... got it on clearance from BestBuy $399.00. Only one glitch... you knew there had to be one didn't you? ;-) HP used Intel's ALC880 (RealTek) internal high definition audio, and of course it didn't work with SuSE 10 because the ALC880 open drivers don't ship with 10.0. I believe the drivers should be included in a future SuSE distro (if not already in 10.1). I pulled the driver sources from RealTek: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?keyword=ALC880 The file is: realtek-linux-audiopack-4.04c.tar.bz2 Previous is: realtek-linux-audiopack-3.5-6.tar.bz2 The drivers for the ALC880 (and family) are provided by the www.alsa-project.org. The installer readme indicates that ncurses needs to be installed for the SuSE distro, and the instructions give two compile/install methods... automatic and manual. My realtek question is whether the SuSE tech guys (or the SuSE fan club user base) has any experience with these drivers or the alsa project, and whether there are any considerations I should be aware of before I play around with this. It looks like the primary diff between the two available versions is the number of ALC8xx cards supported, but I am wondering if SuSE is aware of whether one or the other is more compatible with the 10.0 boxed distro. I am tempted to compile the sources (non root) with the makefile, then manually install based on the instructions as root. Are there issues (security or otherwise) that can arise by doing the automated ./install as root? Thanks for your thoughts guys and gals. M Harris