Re: Keeeeyboard problems
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> >>>>> "EGS" == Edward G Speyer <ed.speyer@vistek.tv> writes:
>
> EGS> In the past week I have been suffering from a rather odd
> EGS> bug (or pair of bugs perhaps) on my woody iBook: keys on
> EGS> the keyboard seem to be sticking down and my mouse is quite
> EGS> jerky. This problem has not cropped up in Mac OS X and I
> EGS> am pretty sure it isn't my hardware, but that is obviously
> EGS> not a proof.
>
> I have problems with an extremely sensitive trackpad, resulting in the
> latter. A USB mouse and adjusting the trackpad setting via pbbuttonsd
> helped.
>
> Making sure that my palms are off the "palm rest" helps even more.
The mouse is actually quite smooth most of the time -- I can trace circles
with it quite easily -- it just jerks a few times now and then when this
bug is happening. I don't think it is the same problem as when I
accidentally touch other bits of the touchpad.
I was thinking the mouse problem might be more to do with some other
process blocking the IO bits of the kernel, but I am not really sure what
I have to do to test this (other than watch `top` that is). Is there any
sort of useful debugging tool I can use that tells me when processes are
doing (or rather, are blocked on) lots of IO?
Also, I sometimes get the error `fork: resource temporarily unavailable'
two or three times a day while listening to music with xmms, and it seems
to be fixed by killing xmms. Perhaps this is related?
Waiting to feel foolish by being given a much simpler explanation,
Ed :)
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