I only get this at boot time, so it isn't a big deal, but this is reminding me of that Microsoft "New Hardware Hell" we used to see in '98 and '95. I have my mouse connected to my computers using a Linksys 4 way switch, the kind that allows a person to switch back and forth between different computers with the same keyboard, monitor and mouse. I use it in my day-to-day without a glitch, except for when I install or update SuSE. When I install or update SuSE the install program never finds the mouse, and I have to do the install with a substitute, bypassing the switch, snaked around back. When things are up and running I go into YaST and update the mouse. I've been doing this little workaround since SuSE 5.2 or thereabouts. With 8.1, though, things didn't go so well. The install was normal, but now every time I boot the text based YaST2 pops up, asking me to supply mouse information. Is there a way around this? -- Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with ... Student: EBCDIC!"