> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > hardware failure.
The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one of the USB ports (which I had used before just fine), but if connected through a USB hub it works just fine. So I wonder what could be going on, or "they" are just messing with me, make me "wonder" ... as if I didn't have enough to do already. I do know that they somehow install keyloggers apparently through java script on every computer I use even if I am using a computer at a public library. On Windows, when I go: "Control Panel\Hardware and Sound" ... and then click on: "view hardware and devices" I see what you are supposed to see on the attached [ix lbrtchx