Thanks everybody for your sollutions. I'm really learning the commands and everything this way.

Got the KDE to autoboot, but the mousewheel won't do a single scroll up or down... Works OK for the rest.. accepts all clicks, no flikkering in the movement of the arrow... just the wheel that won't cooperate...

Logitech optical wheel, no cordless... M-BD58..

I'm going to check the Logitech site....

Thanks again for any suggestions....

DW