Hi Folks, Here are a few of the bugs encountered during a fresh install of 9.1 The automated install recognizes the VIA VT6102 RHINE II integrated NIC 10/100 as ETH0 but at activation time could not use it to connect to my DHCP host/ gateway. I found no mention of the chipset or the 'RHINE II' in the support or h/w data base. I put a $1.75 generic Realtek 8139 card in a PCI slot which 9.1 recognized and setup flawlessly. However, despite the fact the Install process flaged the RHINE II as 'failing' it did not remove or deactivate it. Anyone else had experiances (good or bad) with the VT6102 RHINE II integrated Ethernet? The instance of YOU that runs during the install proc did not caution user to use sax2 from init3 before first full start(X)up. The Nvidia HOWTO posted on the SUSE support site advises correctly to install the kernel sources for the new kernel (2.6.5-7.104) but does not also remind user to install the make and GCC and develop pkgs which are not installed by the installer, nor are they offered. After muddling thru the Nvidia upgrade (6111) and re-booting into init 3, the SUSE HOWTO tells one to do "sax2 -m 0=nvidia" but that hangs the system on a black screen, and no alternate test console is avail. However the alternative usage: "sax2 -m 0=nv" works correctly. These continuing problems and confusions dealing with the MOST POPULAR VIDEO CARDS should be top priority with the SUSE/NOVELL team. Many times in the last few hours YAST and other processes have demanded my root p/w. To add insult to injury, when one checks the box "remember the P/W" or words to that effect, the sys again and again asks for the P/W. Within YAST there is NO OPTION to remember the P/W. Once SUSE has reminded the user about security, shouldn't they leave us to our own follies? We ought to be allowed to "turn off" the nanny mode. There have been 3 instances where after clicking the 'administrator mode' button in YAST where it just sat in the "Loading..." state. I could cancel that session and I could make other YAST tools but each time it failed to load the "Tell me your P/W" sub-routine. I installed OPERA from the OPERA web site since there is a security alert on the vers SUSE ships, and KDE has a menu item under 'applications' but clicking only gets the wait cursor (cute) and a minute later no OPERA and no msg or other notification at all. Out of nowhere a msg box popped up saying: " Error-artsmessage sound server fatal error CPU overload ........... Aborting" That got my attention! I shutdown, rebooted so I could look at MB 'health stats' but there was no evidence of an overload. Just what do you suppose that msg meant? I see, intermittantly, a KDE menu problem I first saw on the 9.1 live preview CD: sometimes when you click on Geeko's head to open the menu, the focus highlighting is seen to be 'jittering' up and down regardless of where you put the cursor. Mostly OK, but when it happens it is an aggravation. Now for Praise........................... (no not the Italian SUSE'r we all know) YAST is really getting good; the look is very polished, it has a more intuitive way of working. If only we had tools like these when I worked on IBM Mainframes!! The KDE installed is very nice to look at!! For the first time I didn't feel the urge to go to KDE-Look for better looking options. Lots of yummy wallpaper avail in standard install. Sound on the ABIT KV7 MB was perfectly recognized and the sound works just right, the first time. The YOU kernel update was very slick and painless. 2.6.5-7.104 feels good and fast to me, but that may be the Athlon XP2700 flexing its muscles. Kernel reports 4309 BogoMIPS. USB 'thumb' drive works first try perfectly!!! That never happened on any previous release. (Thanks Fred and SUSE'r for the alert to keep the old hotplug. Do let us know when SUSE YOU is offering a real working hotplug). Plugged the Mini-Cruzer and 4 clicks later Nora Jones was making music. Karamba is facinating; I'm looking forward to exploring it. Seems odd that no-one on our list has mentioned it before? PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to Joseph Campbell http://www.jcf.org/ Free D/Ls after free registration --