Hi, After installing 8.1 over 8.0 and getting YOU to cooperate here is the next issue. SuSE have introduced ACPI for power management. My 13 month old Dell Inspiron 4000 does not seem to respond to this. (It may be that Dell is not part of the ACPI consortium see http://www.acpi.info yet.) At present the battery not charging icon is displayed. KDE Control Center power management does not work any more. I have set the acpid daemon to run via YaST. There seems to be no GUI tool to configure or check the status of power management. The sysconfig options for ACPI are a mystery. The SuSE HOWTO for end users is well hidden, if it exists. The SuSE DB article seems to be saying how one can get rid of ACPI but it is brief and lacks a very specific example of what to do. So is there a user friendly solution ? If not how does one get rid of ACPI and reinstall APM ? -- John