Hi!! Epox 8KTA3 motherboard, 128 megs RAM, ATI Xpert 2000 Pro video card with AGP (2x selected), Microsoft Optical Wheel PS/2 mouse (in a previous install of MD 8.0 the mouse worked like a charm) I reinstalled MD 8.0 into newly formatted partitions. When I boot into KDE or Gnome I have no mouse. In Gnome, the Tip screen comes up and I can not close it even with the keyboard. Focus is on the file manager and I can not change focus from it to the Tip screen or any other part of the desktop. In fact the mouse cursor (arrow shaped) is stationary in the middle of the screen. I have invoked mouseconf and selected the Generic PS/2 wheel mouse with no success. Could this be a video problem rather than a mouse problem? Any ideas? Thnaks Preston (a total Linux neophyte) --- Betti Ann & Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB & RV Owners