[bjames]

ok.. that makes sense. Thanks for this information. I am now thinking this is the reason why I was having a heck of a time trying to install the Wacom drivers. The Wacom drivers installed fine, but the Optional Input Devices software fromt he Std Execution Environment would not install from the 6.5.28 overlays as if kept resulting in conflicts that did not make sense. i.e. "Cannot be installed because this version is older than the current version" - even though I was installing a much newer version. I was able to install the 6.5.28 overlays onto the existing 6.5.12 system before I posted this thread. Appart from some conflicts it appeared to work, but now I wondering how much actually installed. Since this was a fresh IRIX install, I think I will wipe the disk and reinstall properly. Thanks