Jim, I am the original poster.....I raised the problem on the IBM Support Thinkpad discussion list and have yet to see an answer. I would happily regress.....I am glad (sorry!!) that somebody else has the same problem. Adrian ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html