[SLE] Major problems with SUSE10.1 after a clean install and update

I don't know how to even begin to describe what's going on with my computer....

I have an AMD X2 3800+ in an ASRock939DualSATA-2 motherboard, 2GB ram
in single channel mode and an nVidia 6600GT.

I had the system working fine on Friday, but decided to do a clean
install to tidy up some of the tinkering I'd been doing. So I know
that this hardware was fine with SUSE10.1 at one point.

After a re-install (and standard update plus the latest nVidia video
driver) all hell broke loose (so to speak). Something is running in
the background (I think that's the cause) that spazzes my keyboard
out. When I try to type, I get LOADS of repeated letters. It's as if
the keyboard repeat is on 0ms delay and 1000cps - and it's not on all
the time... it comes and goes. I can easily fill an entire screen
with a single character when it hits though. Imagine how long it's
taking me to type this email :-(

I've tried disabling things like Beagle (and the Beagle daemon)... no
change. Complete clean boots... same behavior. I've scanned through
the logs... nothing unusual.

On top of the spazzing keyboard, the screen also blanks out on me and
the computer goes into hibernate mode - while I'm usng it! This also
makes it basically impossible to use...

What really has me totally baffled is that this is the exact same
install as before... and it worked fine before.

I've even tried a full update with Smart (from Guru). Nothing fixes
this... so far.

So anyone else encountering this? What or where can I look to fix this?


C...

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