On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:28:57PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I am typing this message and swearing alongside, because every 20th > character or so just doesn't show up in vim, which I use through mutt > within an aterm running through WindowMaker on XF86 4.2.1-3 on > a Debian testing system on my Latitude C610 (with a PII 1.2 GHz and > 1024Mb of RAM), displaying through a ATI Radeon Mobility LY, which is > driven by X's native ati module. > > When I say every 20th character, then this means any random character. > The problem is not with a set of keys, it's with the entire keyboard, > including the space and return keys. > > I've exchanged the keyboard only to find the same problems, so I am > leaning towards a software problem. It happens on the ttys too though. > > My X is weird anyway. Every now and then, the mouse pointer will > freeze for a second or two before continuing to move, as if the system > was too busy to update it. Similar things happen to letters I type, > sometimes the system will just stop blinking or advancing the cursor > for two seconds, until after that time, everything I typed suddenly > appears. This really makes editing a lot of fun (and this last thing > also happens on the console). I've seen similar things on my Dell I4000 - but only after using hotswap - e.g. removing the cd-rom drive. Same symptoms. I learned the hard way to make sure that I rmmod'ed ide-cd *before* removing the cdrom drive. I only realised why after browing /var/log/syslog (or was it by looking at the console - it's a while back...) The only way to get things back to normal was to re-insert the cdrom drive, wait until the kernel was happy, and *then* umount + rmmod + remove cdrom drive. Luckily, hotswap (from the package of the same name) seems to do things right. HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: I am not a politician and my other habits are also good. -- A. Ward
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