I've been having some odd problems with my keyboard lately. It used to be, when I typed a long string of characters on the command line, or in a text file, and held the backspace key down or an arrow key, it would backspace until I took my finger off of the key. Saturday morning I came down to find my computer turned off, I can only assume my son (8 months old) had inadvertently flipped the power switch, along with whatever non-obvious things have happened. Now when I hold the backspace key down, it erases the character behind the cursor and stops. To delete a whole line, I have to press the backspace key for every character. same for the arrow keys. I haven't done a whole lot of testing, I don't know if it works similary for other characters. The computer dual boots windows, but I haven't booted into windows since this occured, so I don't know if it does the same in windows. So am I missing something really easy? Is it something as simple as a switch on the keyboard, or a BIOS setting, or is it some config file in linux that has been corrupted or altered? It's not really detrimental to the computer, mostly just an inconvenience, especially when I have to backspace an entire command line option, or want to hold pagedn to get to the bottom of a long text file. Oh, if it matters, the box is running RH 6.1, just wondering if anyone else had seen this problem before or knew off the top of their head how to fix it. Brian ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
