On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 21:46, Nagaprabhanjan Bellari wrote: > And atlast it worked, after removing the culprit 'gpm'. > Thanks to all those who have put in their mental efforts to provide solutions > to me. > > It really makes me excited to hear from all of you. ( especially from > alexander who contributes much to this community. ). > > Thanks a lot. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > regards > BNP. A slightly late reply, but I hope it will be of some use to some of you. At my office I found I was having intermittent problems at work with regards to keyboards not working, and the mouse stopping to function from time to time. I realised that the mouse had been set up as a standard PS2 mouse, when I changed it to run as a USB mouse, all of the problems disappeared. Doug