running sid like the madman that i am, i just ran apt-get upgrade, and i must say that the 2.6.15-2 kernel that just came down is noticably faster. although it may also be xorg. in either case something just got a bunch faster. memory management or some sort of extra cpu instruction being used or something good work team Dean -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: dean@bong.com.au