For starters:

amd64 2.6.11-gentoo-r9
logitech cordless optical usb mouse
dell 2405 fpw
ati radeon 9600
fluxbox 0.9.12

I go to use my computer this afternoon after it's been sitting all night, and I move around the mouse, but the screen doesn't unblank. I hit the keyboard, it still doens't unblank. I ctr-alt-del, still nothing. I yell and hard reset. I leave it alone for a few hours and come back, THE SAME THING HAPPENS AGAIN. I boot to windows xp and let it sit for a couple of hours, and NO PROBLEM. So it's not my monitor.

Now I notice the problem in my subject, my mouse wheel is super sensitive, as was the regular mouse movement speed. I use xset m to change the speed of movement, but there is no such setting for the wheel speed. When I wheel through my desktops, it skips two at a time. So I can only see two of the four. I have changed ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the last week as far as software goes. NOTHING. This seems to have occurred completely out of the blue. Any ideas? I've already read the debian list thread on google.

Try booting with your power management off. That sounds like something that happeded to me before. As to your mouse, I don't use Flux, so I can't help. I take it you can cycle theough all four, just not by the mouse wheel?

I'll give that a shot, yea I can manually use the keyboard and go to all four, just can't wheel. Any idea how to slow it down?

I ditched that mouse and plugged in another logitech I had laying around. Wheel is back to normal now. Now to see if stopping acpid helps with the real problem...

I am running a windows box and a linux box to this Dell 2405fpw monitor through a KVM. The windows box has no troubles, but I am getting only text from linux---X won't start. How did you configure linux to see graphics on this monitor?

Thanks, Don

That depends on more than the monitor, what video card do you have running? What kind of error message do you get from X when it tries to start? What does /var/log/Xorg.log or the like say?