in a first attempt on new opensuse 11.3 it seems to me that nouveau behaves similar to proprietary nvidia driver - this means for me nogo for realtime audio and fw-card, due to interrupt issues (Lenovo R61: Yenta and Nvidia share one interrupt). Switching to nv eliminates these constraints. If nv is subject to be removed in future releases then I will continue to work with my excellent running opensuse 11.2 (plus selfbuilt rt-kernel) till the end of my Laptop (which is not that far cause it's a really hard working machine *lol*). best Susanne -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01