I have Mandrake 7.2 setup and configured to boot and log in graphically. It seems to work as far as it goes, which is up to the shell-login screen. After that, the screen just goes black. :( :( :( the tail of my /var/log/messages says: Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant anacron: anacron startup succeeded Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant anacron[772]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2000-12-27 Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant rc: Starting kheader: succeeded Dec 27 18:57:15 revenant netconf: Checking kernel configuration Dec 27 18:57:16 revenant anacron[772]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Dec 27 18:57:16 revenant linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Dec 27 18:57:24 revenant PAM_unix[806]: (system-auth) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) Dec 27 18:57:24 revenant -- root[806]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1 Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant last message repeated 67 times Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-180 What please can I do to get this working again? Thank you, Revenant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---------------Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ----------------------