> 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 If it does the same for all chars, I'd suspect that your keyboard repeat/refresh/ rate is set to a bogus value (or is set to off). Its usually 1 second or less. (BIOS setting). -Pete ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org