finally have just about everything going smooth on my 10.1:) a combination of libzypp and smart have worked well and even the blue/orange globe behaves well! found the vmware usb access workaround, sharpened mm to just about the linucs flash player limit, now i am stuck with player not showing .nuv files and a strange sound problem: each / any new app with sound resets volume to max! I have the sound settings "locked" in kmix & kamix, yet the sound resets to max even between a video ad and a video clip in the same video!!! Thats on a biostar T-force 550 board, mcp55 on board audio, suse 10.1 x86-64 os. alsa 1.0.13-0. All other updates are current, smart and yast and zmd all agree with each other and with me on that issue. suggestions please? d.