I installed and configured SUSE 10.1 (x86_64 version) from the retail DVD. I basically upgraded the existing SUSE 9.3 Pro x86_64 installation to 10.1. Perhaps the problems detailed below are due to the upgrade (as opposed to installing SUSE 10.1 from scratch). Overall, SUSE 10.1 at the moment (and this could change) feels like a step back on my machine. This is not surprising since SUSE 9.3 Pro was very close to perfect on my hardware.

Hardware: ASUS A8V Deluxe (Socket 939) with onboard Marvel gigabit card. onboard Realtek sound, AMD 3000+ CPU, 1GB DDR 3200 RAM, 200GB ATA drive, nVidia Quadro 2 Pro (ELSA GLoria III) videocard, Samsung 172T 17" LCD, Soundblaster Live! soundcard.

During hardware detection, the Soundblaster card was not detected in Yast and this led to subsequent problems. Other than that, installation via the upgrade route was smooth except when it came to registration. The registration process got stuck in a weird loop and I had to kill the browser by logging into a virtual console.

After logging in, I tried to set up the Soundblaster soundcard. Yast did not detect it though despite the fact that it shows up when I do lspci -v. Update: It now semi detects it after I tried insmodding the driver. Weird. I have to add the MIDI fonts manually as well on each reboot.

I noticed that Yast no longer gives you the option of downloading the Microsoft fonts and the nVidia drivers. Since I have an older "legacy" nVidia card, I downloaded the 7174 x86_64 version of the driver (which is the correct one as per nVidia's website) and tried to compile it. No dice since the compilation exits with numerous errors. Looks like I'm stuck with the nv driver. Update: I couldn't find anyone reporting the same problem so I bit the bullet and ordered a new AGP 4X/8X card.

I have a USB HP 1320 printer and cups gave me weird errors when I tried to configure it. Eventually, it started working but I have no idea how to reproduce the steps. (I kept deleting and re-installing the rpms and renaming the old config files.)

I couldn't find synaptic (apt gui) but found smart instead. Looks like smart will eventually (if it is not abandoned half way through like synaptic) be pretty good. Abandoning reasonably functioning software is a disturbing trend in linux with apt/synaptic being a good example of that trend.

kaffeine, MPlayer and totem all behave strangely, segfaulting all over the place despite libdvdread, libdvdcss being installed. libdvdread throws up numerous errors. Hopefully, these will start working eventually.

Updates don't work. (I think this has been widely reported.) However, I've started using smart (in gui mode) for updates and new software and getting to like it quite a bit. I couldn't find rosegarden (MIDI editor) and ended up compiling it from scratch.

In comparison, the videocard with 7174 x86_64 nvidia driver, the SB Live! soundcard driver and the CUPS HP drivers all installed correctly in SUSE 9.3 Pro. Most multimedia software (kaffeine, MPlayer etc.) also worked reasonably well. I have to say that at this point, SUSE 10.1 seems quite broken. Hopefully, it'll start to gell soon.

Anand

I hear you man, I was on v9.3, tried to upgrade to v10.1 but gave up out of some of the same frustrations you described. Instead I switched to v10.0 and we'll see how that goes. Worst case scenario is that I just dust off the original v9.3 installation disks