had same problem with SUSE 9.1, found another copy from someone else, and the update worked :/, i think they may have had differing minor versions.

DAMN IT! Whats this about different mirror versions! Man what else can go wrong. From reading this guys problems with SuSE I'm starting to doubt it's a very good system. Maybe I should look into a better Linux to start out with.

This sucks! When I tried installing my NVIDIA driver for the GeForce SaX2 would kick out at "startup". It would complain like "Oh boo hoo, there isn't a good driver or adapter I can use so I'm going to crash on you! So there!". It's stupid, why couldn't Linux just use DLLs instead of all this other runs-you-around crap. I can't even get my SuSE online.

Lets see, I don't like RedHat anymore because there quiters! I like Mandrake but I don't have money right now, but will in about a month. The Linux I really, really want is Lycoris but I don't have $400 for. Hmm... Mandrake is cheaper, but I want a more Profesh type of Linux. I tried Gentoo but it sucked and wouldn't run after I spent all night compiling it. BUT! It did use the Internet because I was running a LiveCD.

I think I know whats going on here. I found out what my problem was. I didn't buy a stuffed penguin for good luck....

SUSE, Red Hat, Mandrake + Gentoo != Linux.
Please dont spread your illiteracy here. These are not faults with Linux, but rather with vendor's.

Oh yeah, thats right Linux is just the kernel isn't it? I think it's more like the venfors (mainly SuSE in my case) don't keep their distribution up to date. For example, my SuSE can't use YOU because of an error with the mirror servers.

From reading other posts, it seams that they changed the servers URL so my YOU can't find them just for that reason. Maybe they don't care about previous releases or they aren't considerate of them. Because I haven't been able to find documentation about why my YOU can't get online or URLs to the mirror servers to update my system.

Perhaps I shouldn't waste time worrying about other things and concentrate on the Linux kernel and bash for starters. I think I would learn more about my system that way opposed to learning things the other way around.

I think I will have to re-compile the kernel myself, but a previous post suggest that I don't have to. I wonder how I set the X server up to use the NVIDIA driver then?

I wouldn't feel comfortable running Linux without knowing how to recompile the kernel. That's as much a part of Linux as regular reformats is with Windows. ;)

Yep, I really don't know much about Linux. I don't even know where to find the soruces to recompile it with. I'e been looking around on my system and I seams more like a mess. Maybe I should Google on Windows for some really good Linux Guru Kernel tutorials. I remember finding one where some guy ws explaining what to keep and not to keep with a Linux distribution and how to work with the kernel.

I feel after a while once I get better with Linux, I'm thinking about just downloading and saving to CDR to components I want. What I mean is downloading the applications that I want and excluding everthing else. Like, I would download the kernel with the NVIDIA driver, GCC and KDE with a few special applications for development. That would be a huge drop in size compared to most distrobutions.

Do I really need Gnome or GTK if I only use KDE and KDE applications? I really don't care for all the office and email apps because I never user them. What I really mean to ask is, what are the basic things I need besides the kernel to run KDE and the Qt IDE with GCC. I don't care about any office application or email FTP applications. The application I mainly use is Konquer any ways. If I write source code then I will use VI and GCC on the command line or make use out of an IDE (preferebly KDE's developing environment).

What you people think?

Recompile the kernel? This is not 1996 anymore people! If a tutorial or the like tells you to recompile the kernel, that is usually just because that's guaranteed to work on even "Djungle Joe's Custom Linux". All you are generally required to do, is insert a driver module into the kernel. Some drivers come in source form, and require you to have the kernel header files installed (the "kernel-source" package) in order to build properly. That, however, is not the same thing as recompiling the kernel. Not even close.

getting 3d back should be quite simple: just reinstall the nvidia drivers with you (yast online update) and after that change the driver from 'nv' back to 'nvidia' (if it's not done automatically)...