Michael et al, My kernel is compiled with: CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=y Indeed, /dev/apm_bios does not exist. But MAKEDEV does not even know how to create it. My XFree86.log does show: (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) Notwithstanding any of this, I believe that it is still a bug. It worked fine before, why this sudden requirement now? -- John