"Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message news:33vWV-5m6-17@gated-at.bofh.it... Thanks, Ron, I have now got it working with the VESA driver, but not, unfortunately, with my USB mouse. Trawling the archives reveals countless suggestions for getting a USB mouse working, all of them different, and none of them successful (at least, of the ones I've understood well enough to try).