The documentation that I read saying to disable gpm was about a year or possibly more old. It could be that gpm has evolved to be more x-friendly since then. George Bonser grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@concentric.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .