hello all and a Happy New Year!! Have just installed 11.3 on a spare partition on my laptop and am very pleased!! No problems with wireless connection, desktop effects are brilliant, tremendously impressed!! Hooray. My first attempt at Linux, why did I wait so long. Thank you.
Welcome aboard postmanpat65! That is great to hear. You might find this guide useful during your first steps:
If you get stuck, we’ll be here to assist. 
Congratulations and welcome.
hello all and a Happy New Year!! Have just installed 11.3 on a spare partition on my laptop and am very pleased!! No problems with wireless connection, desktop effects are brilliant, tremendously impressed!! Hooray. My first attempt at Linux, why did I wait so long. Thank you.
Ditto from me. Happy to hear of your success and welcome to the openSUSE forum. May I suggest a good read here in this thread:
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide
You are going to want to add this repository as it is the key to most multimedia needs.
http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.3/
I have a small script file if you are up to it to check your multimedia setup here:
MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
Message #40 has the most recent version of mmcheck. If you need anything at all here, you need to only ask and good luck.
Thank You,