diff --git a/config/pac.m4 b/config/pac.m4
index 64b43956..3e28f5a7 100644
--- a/config/pac.m4
+++ b/config/pac.m4
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ dnl Warning : square brackets are EVIL!
 [AC_MSG_CHECKING([for working source dir of PSBLAS])
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
            program test
-	       use psb_sparse_mod
+	       use psb_base_mod
            end program test
 EOF
 if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile) && test -s conftest${ac_objext}; then
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ dnl Warning : square brackets are EVIL!
 [AC_MSG_CHECKING([for version of PSBLAS supporting psb_long_int_k_])
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
            program test
-	       use psb_sparse_mod
+	       use psb_base_mod
                integer(psb_long_int_k_) :: val 
            end program test
 EOF
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index db06577c..16d9f357 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5324,7 +5324,7 @@ ac_compile='${MPIFC-$FC} -c -o conftest${ac_objext} $FMFLAG$PSBLAS_DIR/include $
 $as_echo_n "checking for working source dir of PSBLAS... " >&6; }
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
            program test
-	       use psb_sparse_mod
+	       use psb_base_mod
            end program test
 EOF
 if { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \"$ac_compile\""; } >&5
@@ -5351,7 +5351,7 @@ ac_compile='${MPIFC-$FC} -c -o conftest${ac_objext} $FMFLAG$PSBLAS_DIR/include $
 $as_echo_n "checking for version of PSBLAS supporting psb_long_int_k_... " >&6; }
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
            program test
-	       use psb_sparse_mod
+	       use psb_base_mod
                integer(psb_long_int_k_) :: val
            end program test
 EOF
diff --git a/docs/src/gettingstarted.tex b/docs/src/gettingstarted.tex
index aa98021a..ff6510b1 100644
--- a/docs/src/gettingstarted.tex
+++ b/docs/src/gettingstarted.tex
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Examples showing the basic use of MLD2P4 are reported in Section~\ref{sec:exampl
 Note that the Fortran 95 module \verb|mld_prec_mod|, containing the definition of the 
 preconditioner data type and the interfaces to the routines of MLD2P4,
 must be used in any program calling such routines.
-The modules \verb|psb_sparse_mod|, for the sparse matrix and communication descriptor
+The modules \verb|psb_base_mod|, for the sparse matrix and communication descriptor
 data types, and \verb|psb_krylov_mod|, for interfacing with the
 Krylov solvers, must be also used (see Section~\ref{sec:examples}).
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ multi-level preconditioner available in the real double precision version
 of MLD2P4 (see Table~\ref{tab:precinit}). This preconditioner is chosen
 by simply specifying \verb|'ML'| as second argument of \verb|mld_precinit|
 (a call to \verb|mld_precset| is not needed) and is applied with the BiCGSTAB
-solver provided by PSBLAS. As previously observed, the modules \verb|psb_sparse_mod|,
+solver provided by PSBLAS. As previously observed, the modules \verb|psb_base_mod|,
 \verb|mld_prec_mod| and \verb|psb_krylov_mod| must be used by the example program.
  
 The part of the code concerning the
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ the corresponding Fortran 95 codes are available in \verb|examples/fileread/|.
 \begin{minipage}{.90\textwidth} 
 {\small
 \begin{verbatim}
-  use psb_sparse_mod
+  use psb_base_mod
   use mld_prec_mod
   use psb_krylov_mod
 ... ...