Mates, This one is bizarre. Fresh 9.3 install. Working great for a week. I go to fire up kde and my mouse is moving r e a l s l o w like it is on drugs or something. So I end the current kde session, make sure no other sessions are running and restart. Same result. Well, I needed to bounce the system anyway for a bios setting so after bringing it back to life I issued the trusty startx command again. Now *no mouse* the pointer won't move. ctrl+alt+backspace. Fire up yast and look at the mouse. Yep, still ps/2explorer. Next off for a little trip to XFree86.0.log: nemesis:/home/david # cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old | grep EE (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse Hmm... nemesis:/home/david # ll /dev/mouse /bin/ls: /dev/mouse: No such file or directory WTF?? Next off to hardware information. Mouse should be /dev/input/mouse1 Question: WTF happened to /dev/mouse?? How could something just disappear?? Yes I know it is a soft link, but if I didn't remove it -- who did? Anybody else have this happen to them? Rather than setting a soft link, I just modified xorg.conf to point Mouse[1] to /dev/input/mice. Works fine, but that doesn't answer the question of what happened in the first place. Any ideas?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --