Hi again -- I would like to thank those of you who told me how to get into XF85Config to reconfigure the X Server to work with my new mouse/video card combination. At least the machine works correctly in :"pure UNIX" (i.e. black-screen non-graphic) mode. I am confident that I know what sort of PS/2 mouse I have (and when I issue startx, moving the mouse does move the X on the screen), and I am confident in the video memory on my card and on the settings for my monitor. HOWEVER, when I issue the startx command, the screen turns the gray color/cross-hatched pattern with the mouse's X that one sees when one first configures the X server. The KDE does not come up, and one loses control of the machine. It doesn't hang, but you can't do anything. Typing does nothing, and you can't open a shell. Can anybody advise what's happening? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]