[Wylug-help] Advent 5372 Keyboard/touchpad problems

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:00:32PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got an Advent 5372 laptop which dual boots WinME (no comment) and
> RH7.3+Errata.
>
> However, when I'm in linux which is most of the time, I have problems where by
> letters get inserted while I'm typing.
>
> I'm mainly using gvim to type up SQL to populate a database.  The two
> keystrokes that get inserted are 'q' and '<f3>'.  Also, when I try to use the
> touchpad to move the mouse, I ocasionally get the mouse jumping all over the
> screen, and the context menus appearing as though I've pressed a mouse
> button.
>
> Firstly, I thought it was hardware but when I boot into WinME and try to
> replicate the problem it doesn't appear.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas how I can fix this?

The dodgy mouse business certainly sounds like it's an X
configuration/server problem. I'm wondering if the keystrokes aren't
appearing when you have maybe touched the touchpad when typing.

Have you tried just running vim in an xterm or just under a console?
With the mouse disabled in X?  Did you write the XF86Config yourself?
Maybe a google for an XF86Config for that particular machine might be
an idea. Also could be a problem with the version of X you're running
and your particular graphics card.

Always worthwhile looking through the manpage for your particular X
server eg: man XF86_Mach64 as sometimes they describe a useful
configuration tweak.

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