Well, in other news, I managed to get USB working properly. How's this for weirdness: USB would work fine under X, but if I were to switch to a text console (say vt1) I would get timeout errors. Finally, I got a clue and checked /proc/interrupts. Oddly enough, interrupt 10 was shared by both USB and NVidia. "Ah!" says I, "Check BIOS!" So after a quick slap of the hand to the head, I looked in BIOS, and sure enough, USB was not assigned an interrupt, but AGP was. One reboot later, interrupt 10 is assigned to NVidia, and 11 to USB. And there was much rejoicing. Just in case anyone cared... :Peter