Well thought i would have a look at 12.1 rc1 as it is getting close to release time and no one seems to be bothered with the problems i have with 11.3 . Booting is very slow the 11.3 system i at leats twice as quick, Sound system sometimes yes sometimes no . This on an Compaq Presario v5030 laptop AMD turion 64 1.5Gb Ram ATI graphics (shared memory ) tested on a Tosiba 40Gb drive that i use as a test install drive . The same hardware on 11.3 (all 64 bit systems and software) is as i said twice the speed . Ideas of where to look for info as i cn not sit and watch the boot process by hitting the Esc key as it keeps going back to the graphics screen Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 7" 08:04 up 1 day 11:28, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org