Hi, This is most likely not very Debian specific but here goes.
From time to time, I'd say at least once a day, my keyboard just generates a '`'. For instance I would be scrolling in a C file in Emacs and suddenly a '`' appears. Of course I'm absolutely certain that it's not me accidentally hitting this key. I could not find any pattern: it happens in any program, whether the keyboard has been 'idle' for a long time before or not, but it only happens when I hit a key. I don't remember it happening in the console but I don't spend enough time using it to rule it out. Also I know it does not happen in NT 4 and Win2000 (unless the problem is with my keyboard, not the model). The keyboard is the standard keyboard that came with a Gateway E-3110 (it says model 2196003. You can check it out here, http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RJ3M-AOK/keyboard/2196003-XX-XXX.html, except mine is a qwerty/US version. My XF86Config 3.3.6 file says: Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" XkbModel "pc104" XkbModel "microsoft" EndSection (everything else is commented out) So if anyone knows what could be wrong with it let me know. The second feature of this keyboard is that sometimes it freezes. And this time I know it's the model because it also happens on NT4 and Win2000 machines. Doing a cold keyboard reboot (unpluging and replugging it) plus a kbdrate fixes it. May be related? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" -- Linus Torvalds
