Re: Sporadically erroneous keystroke repetitions

2009-11-16 Thread Oliver Block
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:18:01PM +, Nix wrote: > Are you using kernels 2.6.31--2.6.31.4 on an SMP system or with PREEMPT > enabled? If so, this is a Linux kernel bug, fixed in 2.6.31.5. No. I use 2.6.26-2-686 (a Debian kernel). Is this really a new problem in 2.6.31? In this case it must have

Sporadically erroneous keystroke repetitions

2009-11-11 Thread Oliver Block
Hi, I sporadically encounter repetitions of my keystrokes. What happens is the following: I press any key, say "a", and instead of getting just one "a" I get many. Not just a few but it is like if I would keep pressing the key. Then I have problems stopping this. Often it does not stop itself. I

Re: Setting resolution of external monitor

2009-05-24 Thread Oliver Block
Dear Paul, On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:14:06PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > I guess that your output device is named differently. Do > > $ xrandr > > and look what how your VGA device is named and change the parameter. I think this is not the case. See my first post. Btw: After the newmode comma

Re: Setting resolution of external monitor

2009-05-23 Thread Oliver Block
Dear Eric, thank you for your answer. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:43:54PM +0200, Éric Piel wrote: [...] > If the laptop's panel doesn't have to move, it's possible to do this > just with xrandr 1.2. Yes, this would be totally fine. > As the 1920x1080 modeline seems to be detected and accepted by

Re: Setting resolution of external monitor

2009-05-20 Thread Oliver Block
Dear Éric, On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:49:30AM +0200, Éric Piel wrote: [...] > From what I understand you want "panning". I would do it with this command: > xrandr --output PANEL --mode 1680x1050 --panning 1920x1080 I cannot try this actually, since I only have xrandr 1.2 > However, it requires

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2009-05-20 Thread Oliver Block
Dear list, I have a problem setting up the resolution of my external monitor connected to the VGA output of my laptop. The graphics controller is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 The laptop display has a native resolution of 1680x1050. The external s

Setting resolution of external monitor

2009-05-20 Thread Oliver Block
Dear list, I have a problem setting up the resolution of my external monitor connected to the VGA output of my laptop. The graphics controller is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 The laptop display has a native resolution of 1680x1050. The external s

Setting resolution of external monitor

2009-05-20 Thread Oliver Block
Dear list, I have a problem setting up the resolution of my external monitor connected to the VGA output of my laptop. The graphics controller is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 The laptop display has a native resolution of 1680x1050. The external s