Hi, I found out that I forgot to enable full USB HID support before compiling the kernel - so of course my USB mouse wouldn't work. Fixed it, and everything's fine now, with my first self-compiled kernel working just fine! Thanks for all the help! all the best, -- Matthias Ellinger ellinger.m@web.de, PGP key at: http://www.bernardel.de Key fingerprint: 72CA 6861 3BE4 75E4 B556 283D 087A BEA7 19A5 B484 Linux User #235126 - Debian GNU/Linux