Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Ouch! Since I struggled through reading it I will quote more of the original message here for the rest of us. > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am confident it is the touchpad. I have the same problem. > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? > A little research res

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-14 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Bob Proulx wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text ... What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did I bump the Trackpoint nor the mouse. I'm no

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-14 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Le 10/09/2010 18:19, Elmer E. Dow a écrit : When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text previously entered. Sometimes I can't reproduce it, but this morning when typing the word "we're" the cursor would jump up

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Elmer E. Dow wrote: > When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) > a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text > ... > What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did > I bump the Trackpoint nor the mouse. I'm not accidentally hitting I

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-12 Thread Elmer E. Dow
I changed the BIOS back this morning to enable the touchpad again. So far, no problems. We'll see how long this lasts. Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Doug wrote: On 9/10/2010 10:57 PM, Doug wrote: /snip/ In PcLOs, there's a setup where you can disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in to the USB port. It's based around a synaptiks package. I did not see the same thing in Debian Squeeze, altho there is a setup that (supposedly) disables

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread green
Doug wrote at 2010-09-10 22:25 -0500: > Why can't I have good old Thunderbird Icedove? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Elmer E. Dow" wrote: >I just ran Nano in a terminal (alt-F2) and it worked fine. A pity it doesn’t happen with nano in a terminal, otherwise you would have had the option to switch keyboards…Did you try choosing a different keyboard layout in X? You could also have a look at the output of “xev”

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 10:57 PM, Doug wrote: /snip/ In PcLOs, there's a setup where you can disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in to the USB port. It's based around a synaptiks package. I did not see the same thing in Debian Squeeze, altho there is a setup that (supposedly) disables the touchpad

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 10:07 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:19:34 -0500 "Elmer E. Dow" dijo: What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did I bump the Trackpoint nor the mouse. I was plagued with the same thing. I finally found relief when I went into the BIO

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:19:34 -0500 "Elmer E. Dow" dijo: >What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did I >bump the Trackpoint nor the mouse. I was plagued with the same thing. I finally found relief when I went into the BIOS and disabled the touchpad. I use a bluetooth mo

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Elmer E. Dow wrote: Claudius Hubig wrote: "Elmer E. Dow" wrote: How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also harppen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a form field?

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Claudius Hubig wrote: "Elmer E. Dow" wrote: How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also harppen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a form field? Best regards, Claudius Hubig It ha

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread green
Elmer E. Dow wrote at 2010-09-10 11:19 -0500: > It's weird and frustrating. Yes, quite. > How can I diagnose this? Also, do you know if it ever happens outside of X, at a text console? I have had dbus cause some weirdness, but only outside of X. I doubt it will help, but you could try stoppi

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Elmer E. Dow" wrote: >How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also happen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a form field? Best regards, Claudius Hubig -- This Fortune Examined By INSPECTOR NO. 2-14 http://ch

Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Elmer E. Dow
When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text previously entered. Sometimes I can't reproduce it, but this morning when typing the word "we're" the cursor would jump up about three lines when I hit the apostrophe