I'm seeing this on an Apple PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard, a.k.a. Lombard). If I disable hald and udisks-daemon, the machine works fine. system: squeeze linux-image-2.6.32-5-powerpc: 2.6.32-31 hal: 0.5.14-3 udisks: 1.0.1+git20100614-3 Risto