konsultor wrote:

> Both log files (warn and messages) exist but appear empty in Kate.

You must be "root" to read that files :-)

> Yast offers only four selections on one pull-down menu for power
> settings; haven't input any other configurations for power management.

Is your computer a bit old? For instance, 2 or 3 years... older computers
may have problems with power management and profiles.

> I'm on the verge of replacing openSUSE 11.1 with SES 10 to get things
> working again. Any insight on that move?

You mean SLES 10 or SLED 10?

SLES is a "server" focused release, while SLED is targeted to be a "desktop"
OS. Both are from Novell.

The main difference (technically speaking) between openSUSE and SLES/SLED is
that openSUSE includes more recent versions of any piece of software
(kernel and applications) so new hardware tends to work better with
openSUSE while old hardware usually goes better with SLED/SLES counterpart.

Note that Novell recently launched SLES and SLED 11 (based on openSUSE 11.1)

Both (openSUSE and SLED/SLES) are a good option. And a good point in favor
of Novell distributions is that support last more than 2 years ;-)

Greetings,

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Camaleón