Dear all, I can get rid of gpm by killall -9 -v gpm, and can then run it OK, but the mouse now misbehaves - it doesn't move the pointer, and moving vigourously sometimes highlightes bits of the top of the screen for no apparent reason :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/