My Mandrake 7.2 is configured to boot graphically. It works well until the point where you would normally enter your login and password. What used to happen was it would display the shell login screen, then open the graphical login screen over the top. Now, once it reaches this stage, I get a blank black screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 does nothing, nor does Alt-F2.. I've checked the messages log and I think the problem is stated here, but am not sure what to do about it: 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 PLEASE help! 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]] ----------------------