Thank You for Your time and answer, Kevin: > I suspected it was related to fglrx drivers, but on my current install > I didn't include these and the key repeat problem is *still* there. Months ago I had some problem w/ my keyboard using X. - I got fixed it by simply returning back to use the stable version of xservers and KDE3 and its associative packages (at the time of trouble I had testing version of it, w/ as far as I do remember - new KDE too).