I installed andLinux on this Dell laptop and as soon as you start any Linux app it gets flooded with a bunch of equal signs (as you can see in the videoclip below), I have no idea why. Remember, nobody is keying in one equal sign every second. It's just the weird behavior of this laptop. I have successfully installed andLinux on other PCs and it works as expected.
I first suspected that it would be a keylogger or some such malware, but I scanned the laptop for viruses, spyware and rootkits and it came out clean.

Here's the videoclip.

http://dserban01.googlepages.com/andLinux.Equal.Signs.html
Alternative link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vQQB3mqzI

Any ideas?

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