I have a laptop where if I started gpm or xdm under kernel 2.4.9, the keyboard and mouse would stop working. Thanks to Leonard Evens <len@math.nwu.edu>, I found out that the kernel yenta stuff grabs IRQ 12 for the pcmcia cardbus controller where my mouse is. Adding append="pci=irqmask=0xafff" to my lilo.conf gets it to grab 15 instead and everything works. (-: -- Mark