This 'wonderful' TPG laptop is also giving me problems with the keyboard. I 'solved' the screen problem by booting with F2 setting the screen as 1280 x 760, then, after starting, Linux objects to the screen setup, I change it to 1280 x 800. Then, when I finish, I wait until shut down fails and then cut off the electricty. However, I cannot do much because the keyboard is not correct. M$ thinks it is a standard 101/102 keyboard and manages quite well. But Linux swaps y with z, and totally interchanges characters like : and > and some keys like / are not available at all. A total shambles. Windows XP thinks that is an American keyboard, but Linux gets messed up with both the American and UK set up. I got into Yast/Hardware/keyboards and looked at what is under each heading but cannot understand the jargon and have no idea what to or how to change same. Does anybody know how I might extract detailed information from XP which I might use to configure the keyboard under Linux? Regards, Colin