Hej list, I have a weird problem on both my suse 8.1 boxes since the last 2 weeks. Now and then the mouse pointer freezes and the mouse does not react anymore. I use an usb mouse on my laptop, so I tried a ps2 one. Same result. I thought my Gericom notebook has just another bug, but then I worked for a while on one of my desktop boxes running Suse 8.1 and it has the same problem. Further investigation showed me that the mousedev module is being removed from memory. lsmod reports it is always unused, which cannot be true. insmod mousedev brings back the mouse and everything is fine. The whole thing reminds me of the "your network card module is not used so I unload it" problems with my old 2.0 boxes.... Back then the solution was to ping someone now and then... :( Any suggestions how to fix this? cheers j