Howdy list. My first question for you all. I have been following the cd burner discussions of the last few days avidly since I have an IDE burner that I could never get to either read or write cds in linux. Last night after work I followed the instructions on the mandrake user site that someone posted a link to and I can now read from my cd burner as root and as all the other users on my system. WooHoo! But, when I log out X hangs. It shows the graphical login screen, a blinking cursor and the mouse pointer but nothing responds. Mouse won't move, keyboard input is not recognized. Kaput. All that can be done is hit that reset button that I hate using. I am using Mandrake 7.02 logitech first mouse+ ps/2 generic keyboard ps/2 asus p5a motherboard amd k6-3 400 cpu LG CD burner HDD generic CDrom drive HDC SBlive netgear FA310TX NIC voodoo2 ATI rage fury AGP dual boot via boot magic windows on first HD HDA linux on second, LILO in 10 meg /boot on 2nd HD HDB HP 15in monitor 256MB of Ram I have backups of all the files I had to change to get the burner working so I can (probably) just change everything back the way it was but that would be very productive would it ;-) Any insights will be greatly appreciated folks. Dacia __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/