We have had a very peculiar problem associated with gpm. First, we have the following system: ASUS P2B-F motherboard 20 GB Western Digital HD Promise Ultra 66 card RedHat 6.0 Linux 2.2.10, with a patch for the Ultra 66 card (I don't think the patch has a bearing on the problem, but I think the Ultra 66 card does.) With gpm automatically started up during reboot, the mouse and keyboard apparently have an address conflict so that the keyboard and mouse lock up. Sometimes killing gpm (by logging in remotely) will free the keyboard, sometimes not. Sometimes after killing gpm, starting and stopping X windows will free up the keyboard. Presently, we are able to get everything to work by: 1) disabling gpm automatic startup 2) unplugging the mouse 3) rebooting 4) logging in as root 5) plugging in the mouse 6) starting "gpm -t ps/2" manually Leaving the mouse plugged in upon reboot, and manually starting "gpm -t ps/2" does not work. Perhaps this is not a gpm problem but a kernel problem; but it is gpm related! I know of at least one other person (Brion Vibber: brion) with a similar system who has this problem. Thanks, B.D.