ok, tried a new x86-64 install from the downloaded 10.1 dvd. This time it went much better. after i copied over parts of the 10.0 xorg.conf and installed the latest nvidia driver the lcd displays at1600x1200. The updates started working just fine without any changes, but after the kde repository was added, things sort of went south and there is no synchronization especially after the kde upgrade died. now i must go to the start of the updated softeware management test thread to find and apply the recommended fix. Also, a right click on a downloaded rpm to "install using Yast" still fails to find the file, yast forgets where it started and looks for the file in the configured installation sources. Another potential trouble spot seems to be with winbind. after starting a simple server and running the windoze domain membership in yast, opening a doze machine fails. another computer on the network, with 32 bit suse 10.0 installed, does see the doze machines. trying 'rcwinbind restart" results in 'daemon not running' error while 'a winbind pid exists in /var/run/samba'. in other oddities, vmware installed after i ran make modules_prepare, not just make prepare and mplayer considers gcc 4.10 'invalid'! disk access seems a bit too high, especially when firefox is running, that's with 2gb ram installed. zen etc were *not* removed. usb seems just fine. printing ( a problem with 10.0) seems fine or at least much improved. At this rate 10.1 will be ready for my main root partition before the end of this week. I do plan on keeping my /home partition intact. any suggestions? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com