Well, I bit the bullet and went with Debian testing so I could install all sorts of things that I'd been wanting (OpenOffice for instance); but unfortunately some kernel option to do with ADB (I think) that was necessary for woody needs turning off for testing, because random garbage characters started coming out of my keyboard after upgrading (so I can't currently log in ...) I tried turning off ADB altogether but now, rather than garbage, I get nothing out of my keyboard. Is it the raw keycodes (or the like) option that needs disabling whilst leaving the rest of ADB enabled, or is it something else? I *can* cycle through all options if necessary, but if someone knows the answer I might then be able to spend tomorrow doing some work rather than emergency system maintenance :-)
Diana.