once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't communicate via ipc but insist on rpc. and if you don't have that problem, then i'd be more than interested in your XF86Config file. thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- de gustibus non est disputandum.