My serial mouse still doesn't work although I put this patch on the boot disk. (Maybe something went wrong; the system still recognizes the PS2 mouse.) However: I already installed 7.0 ("recommended"), and I can login in text mode. So once in Linux, there must be an obvious (and principled) way to tell the system the few things that are in that patch file. (Please consider this has to work in TEXTMODE.) I've seen some hints in the expert mailing list on creating symbolic links manually and tried them, but first this didn't work, and second its not the recommended procedure anyway. So what to do next? * ================================ * * Sebastian Varges * Informatics * University of Edinburgh * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ================================ *