Installed SuSE 7.3 on my desktop,though the X-server and mouse problems made this a very lengthy install. The X is working now but the mouse is still a problem. I had saved data and other files and did a clean install of 7.3. At this time if I boot directly to a graphical interface then the mouse does not function. I can use the keyboard to Tab around KDM and get to a windowed environment, but without a mouse there is no reason to be there. If I startup to a text - console interface and then use "startx" I go directly to KDE and the mouse is working. From a text - console typing in "init 5" will go to KDM and the mouse is working. This is functional but not as convenient as loading directly to the GUI. And this is definitely not the computer to show windows users how easy linux is to use. Any suggestions as to what needs to be tweaked, modified or removed so that this computer can boot directly to KDM? Switching between init 3 and init 5 shows that GPM is added and removed, however I do not want to rush in and remove a utility (such as GPM) until I know that it is safe to do so. Should this be switched off? This computer has been a problem install of X since I got started at SuSE 6.2. Alternatively the problem has appeared to be motherboard BIOS, video card,or mouse. The install have always been without X and then use yast or sax to get X working. This install of 7.3 has just been harder than previous installs. So far I have tried configuring with yast, yast2, sax, sax2 and xf86config. I have used several of the mouse protocol (ps/2 using psaux, worked in the past and is in place right now), changed the video settings and tried booting with and without frame buffers (matrox video card). I could not find a solution in the reference or configuration manuals. Also no solution on the SuSE database. This is an out of the box clean install of SuSE 7.3, and not a hand rolled kernel. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01