Greetings, Now see here lads, I am trying something here and am not satisfied with some of the perks mentioned in the documentation. I will tell you that I did get a similar thing running in redhat 8.0, But SUSe has a strange(what is strange to me) way of doing things. The /dev/input/keyboard device is cool because when you plug in a USB keyboard it also becomes /dev/input/keyboard. So effectively your ps/2 and USB keyboards become one device. cool. The same applies to mice /dev/input/mice is the device for both the ps/2 and USB mice. I split these /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/input/mouse1. Now how can I split the two keyboard devices. I believe that /dev/kbd is the root device for the PS/2 but I still have a bit of trouble with it on this device failing to respond. I am trying to run XFree86 with 2 server layout options, layout0 and layout1. The USB keyboard and mouse are special devices they working but I have to boot with the PS/2 keyboard and mouse unplugged and the reboot to put them back and vise versa with the USB devices. So when I start X with layout0 it will use the default ps/2 kbd and ps/2 mouse, layout1 must use the USB keyb oard and USB mouse. So in an X session the the two keyboards must not coexist, as this messes the fancy keyboard up. I also do not want both to be available in the same session. I have got the mice working but the device and drivers for the keyboards are trouble some, could some one steer to the devices for the these keyboards ? Thanks -- ========================================================== Chadley Wilson Production Line Supervisor Pinnacle Micro / Pinteq PTY(LTD) chadley@pinteq.co.za +270112653193 ========================================================== Penguin Power RHCE in the making ==========================================================