I've posted about this before... but didn't get any useful answers... so I'm trying again. I'm using SUSE 10.1 (KDE 3.5.4) on an AMD X2 3800+ CPU, keyboard is a Cherry Linux keyboard. My current kernel is 2.6.16.13-4-smp (according to uname -r). Everything works fine. The Software Updater tells me that there is a new 2.6.16.21 smp kernel that I should update to. If I update to this latest 2.6.16.21 smp kernel (the only change being applied is the Kernel, the source, and kmp), my computer becomes unusable. Basically after upgrading to this new kernel, my keyboard is in hyper-repeat mode. I cannot type anything because I get dozens of each letter I press. This only happens in KDE, and seems to be independant of KDE version - I have the same exact problem when I have the stock SUSE 10.1 KDE installed. If I manage to switch to a different terminal I can log in and work as normal from the CLI. I do not have Gnome installed so I cannot test to see if the same keyboard repeat happens there. If I roll back the kernel, source, and kmp to 2.6.16.13-4-smp... everything returns to normal and I can use my system without any high speed repeat on the keypresses. If I check the logs there is absolutely nothing out of place. I can live without updating my kernel, but.... it is very annoying that one build of the smp kernel works perfectly, and the next is totally unusable. Last time I posted I got a lot of "works for me" replies. Great.. nice... but it doesn't work for me.... and I don't know how to diagnose the problem... ir even what to say if I raise it as a bug. Does anyone have any ideas or clues as to what is going wrong here? Or what I can do to maybe try to pinpoint the problem so I can raise it as a bug.. or fix the problem (if it's a problem on my system and not a bug)?? Is there any extra info I can provide to help diagnose the problem? C.