hrm, how do you get the mouse wheel to work? i'm not sure where to start looking. do i look at: 1) mouse drivers 2) XFree86 3) windows manager its a microsoft "Wireless Optical Mouse Blue" (which seems to only work well with the "explorer" drivers in X), running on slackware 8.1, kernel 2.4.20, XFree86 4.3.0, and blackbox 0.65.0 thanks dylan