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