Hi . Ran zypper patch last night got a kernel update and a bunch of other stuff which is fine apart from that it has screwed up the laptop now . A Compaq Presario V5030 AMD 64 Turion 1.5Gb Ram ATI graphics Running OpenSUSE 11.2 X86_64 """""Please note as someone is bound to take no notice and try bouncing me out the Sig on this mail IS NOT from the affected machine I have to make this point cus some people seem to like taking no bread Poltice of what they been told"""""" Before last nights updates i had it booting straight into graphics mode no problem now it's back to needing to go to runlevel 3 log in as root then init 5 login as user . Also since the updates if i run zypper patch or zypper up it just moans about cant read XML file this was also completely fine prior to the update Pete . -- 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" 19:00 up 17 days 9:42, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.47, 0.45