Just recently, in gnome, the keyboard and mouse stop responding to most input, except, alt-tab, control-tab, the shift equivalents of those and control-alt-f1 etc. No other keys will respond, the mouse moves but I can't select any windows. After pressing control-tab/shift-tab a few times (with the desktop/window focus changing as appropriate), it all goes back to normal for a while. This only odd messages I see in the logs are: Jun 10 22:21:10 xxx kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly. Jun 10 22:27:51 xxx kernel: usb 1-3.3: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hald-addon-usb- rqt 192 rq 9 len 8 ret -110 It doesn't matter if the keyboard in plugged into a USB or PS/2 port, it's still the same. I've tried several different USB ports aswell. The only other odd thing is, in VMware keys will very quickly repeat, making typing anything impossible. Any ideas? Thanks, Kamal. -- Kamal Shaker, email: kys@xxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.ilzey.net/~kys/ Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. - Gustave Le Bon.