My Desktop is getting flaky - menopause? :-)

Wed Feb 7 15:19:58 UTC 2007

Your laptop looks fine to me, but then again, I shy away from ati 
graphics because they're known to cause problems.  What happens if you 
change to vesa (other than getting no 3D)?

Thomas Olsen wrote:
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> The latest week or so my installation has been getting more and more unstable.
> 
> First different settings began to change like the way toolbars were arranged, 
> passwords went missing from kwallet, the default dictionary changed etc. 
> Minor, but annoying stuff.
> 
> Today it went really bad. It seems like some keys are stuck (which they're 
> not), the K-menu keeps on appearing and disappearing several times a second, 
> Caps-Lock switches from caps to no-caps. Sometimes a letter keeps writing, 
> sometimes the letters doesn't show up at all.
> 
> I find this really weird and terribly annoying.
> 
> Does anyone got a clue whats going on?
> 
> I run a heavily customized Kubuntu Dapper and a ThinkPad 42.
> 
> Some info (+xorg.conf attached):
> 
> kde-3.5.5
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux tanghus 2.6.15-27-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 8 18:00:07 UTC 2006 i686 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> $ lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O 
> Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller 
> (rev 03)
> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 
> EHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
> 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface 
> Bridge (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller 
> (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
> SMBus Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
> AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 
> M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> 0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus 
> Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus 
> Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet 
> Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
> 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 
> 05)
> 
> 
> - -- 
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
> 	Thomas Olsen
> 
> 
> The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W. C. Fields
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> 
> # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
> # values from the debconf database.
> #
> # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
> # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
> #
> # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
> # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
> # package.
> #
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
> # again, run the following command:
> #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> 	# path to defoma fonts
> 	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>         FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load	"GLcore"
> 	Load	"bitmap"
> 	Load	"ddc"
> 	Load	"dbe"
> 	Load	"dri"
> 	Load	"extmod"
> 	Load	"freetype"
> 	Load	"glx"
> 	Load	"int10"
> 	Load	"type1"
> 	Load	"vbe"
> 	Load	"synaptics"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"kbd"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"dk"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver		"mouse"
> 	Option		"CorePointer"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"IMPS/2"
> 	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
> 	Driver		"synaptics"
> 	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
> 	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 9000]"
> 	Driver		"ati"
> 	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
> 	Option		"UseFBDev"		"true"
> 	Option		"BIOSHotkeys"		"on"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
> 	Option		"DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 9000]"
> 	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
> 	DefaultDepth	16
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		1
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		4
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		8
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		15
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		16
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		24
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier	"Default Layout"
> 	Screen		"Default Screen"
> 	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Mode	0666
> EndSection
> 