I upgraded last night using the rpms from kde.org, and it went fairly well, but I have some lingering problems. First of all, the following packages had dependency problems, so I didn't install them (& I don't think it should matter): qtecasound-devel-0.1.2d1-87.rpm kdebindings-mozilla-2.2pre1-5.rpm kdepim-kpilot-2.2.0-7.rpm kec-0.6.2b-6.rpm kdelibs-cups-2.2.0-4.rpm 1. The biggest problem first: If I log out of KDE, and then try to restart (using "startx"), KDE will start up, but the screen is so dark it is virtually unreadable. If I reboot it will start up just fine. If I log out, do a ctrl-alt-bksp, and then "startx", it appears as if it is going to start up normally - the KDE splash screen appears but never gets past the first step and just sits there. Although a small square which says "click to connect to internet" (or something like that) appears - if I click on it, my modem starts dialing). The ONLY thing I did was install the new 2.2 packages, nothing else. Any ideas as to what might cause this? 2. When I tried to do a search in SuSE Help I got the following error message: "There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with text/html, but it can't handle this file type." If I remove html from the file types associated w/ Text in Konqueror Settings, then it will open the help file in a text editor as the html source file! ???? I have no idea what to do here...... 3. When I first started KDE after the upgrade, I got an error message about /dev/dsp (not being able to start the soundserver). I disabled aRts and that seemed to take care of it, but I get soundserver error messages when I start some applications (i.e. like the battleship game). All of the system sounds work (from both front and rear speakers). However, when I play a music CD using kscd, sound only comes from the front speakers, and not the rear. Any insights on this apparent soundserver weirdness? Thanks, MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "If at first you don't succeed...............screw it" ...:-)