Hi . I have just done a zypper dup on the laptop now i am unable to boot the machine with using x11 failsafe and radeon.modset=0 on the grub command line without these the machine does not boot fully goes black screen and is dead no ssh into it no keyboard nothing at all have to force a hard restart to regain control The machine is as follows ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics using 128Mb shared memory Turion 64 bit cpu 1.5Gb Ram 60 Gb hdd I have tried removing xorg.conf to no avail the only error shown in "var/log/Xorg.0.log" is with respect to the fglrx module and where that has come from i dont know not on this machine at all this did not happen prior to the latest updates Pete PS it is NOT this machine that is at a lower level and awaiting a new hard drive . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 21:17 up 12 days 23:00, 4 users, load average: 1.12, 1.12, 0.92