When I click on an icon in KDE it locks up the pointer about 20% of the time. Since ctl-alt-bs or ctl-alt-del doesn't work at all I have to hit reset. It's pretty hard to get very far into an X session without having to hit reset. GPM is not installed on my machine. This is a new Mandrake 8.0 install on a AMD K2-500 system which ran Mandrake 7.2 flawlessly. Plenty of memory and disk - and the hardware never glitches. The mouse is a Logitech optical ps/2 mouse. My XF86Config-4 looks like this: # Pointer Section Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" # Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" # Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated. The system is substantially unusable right now except in console mode. Thanks, Larry Alkoff Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX