Hi I found out why the mouse was not loading on boot - the usb script isn't called if USBCORE is compiled in, even if other usb stuff isn't, so thats what was causing that..
now for some reason my USB 2.0 controller is not setup properly - any devices plugged into it aren't working, i dont know if Mandrake works properly with USB2? i have the USB EHCI compiled as a module Cheers cris.
