Sorry if this is Offtopic but I have done some research on this problem (if my interpretation of the symptoms is correct) but couldn´t find any hint in the internet, therefore no idea how to proceed. Since recent the keyboard of my laptop shows some weird behaviour. Right after switching on the boot process (loading the bios) will only continue if I press a key on the keyboard. Any will do. After that Suse 10.1 boots fine while with XP they keyboard is just dead. I suppose the keys are dirty and need some cleaning The interesting thing is now that in the log of some program connecting via USB to an external handheld CAS a line shows up which isn´t in the program code (the developer tells me so). It says: ticalcs-INFO: sending key 0115: It could very well the one keyboard key which causes this whole bunch of problems. Any ideas or infos on this? Thanks! Guido