Strange Editor Behavior in RH 9

[sedawk]

I noticed that my text editor in RH 9 behaves weired: no matter the text editor, or gedit, or office editor, when I typed in text. the cursor would jump suddenly from current position to another position, the new position is kind of random. It happens quite frequently, So far, I only check these three editors, all of them had the same observation.

Any solution to this? It will tedious if I have to re-install it.

 

[miblo]

Are you sitting on the console or logging in via telnet/ssh?

 

[sedawk]

No, I just used the desktop environment. Why did you ask this question? Something related to this?

 

[miblo]

Strangely enough I do remember experiencing the same problem. But it was several years back, and if I remember correctly it was due to a problem with the terminal emulation on the console. Logging in via a telnet/ssh worked ok, but sitting directly on the console had problems as you describe. I don't think it's related to what you are seeing.

The only thing I can think of that might be causing your problems, is the mouse driver, because that's the only thing that can control the cursor, bvesides 'typing'.

Other than that, I don't have a clue...

~Mike

 

[sedawk]

oh? you did have the same thing happen a while ago? That confirms this is not my installation problem or my hardware problem. How did you solve it? I don't understand what you meant the mouse driver. What can I do with the mouse driver and 'typing'?

 

[sedawk]

Mike,

I think you're right about mouse: I intentionally put the mouse over the title bar(the blue bar on the top), the strange behavior gone. So it seems sometimes the mouse activates itself even no clicking. I don't know if anyway to config it.

 

[miblo]

Try running kudzu or mouse-config to re-detect the mouse. I might update your settings and drivers.

 

[sedawk]

ok, eventually I figured out why and how to fix it. But wait, I lack something to understand what is really going on:

the reason: RH 9 doesn't have my laptop touchpad's driver. Therefore, the touchpad tap option is set to "ON" by default. Slight vibration or touching will activate the touchpad.

Curement: I found a link for my Synaptics touchpad driver for Linux. It should fix this problem according to the description. Here is the link:

http://tuxmobil.org/software/synaptics/

Problem: After downloading and looked at the "INSTALL" file, which is the same as a readme file. I don't know it really change the touchpad settings. For those interested in, here I post the INSTALL file, please tell me how to set touchpad if anyone has experience on this. I don't really know what to do actually.

============================================
needs: - XFree 4.x
- Using with Kernel 2.4.x for x < 10 needs a kernel-patch (see
source-code)

1. If you installing the driver by binary (recommended) you can go to
step 3.

2. Change in the &quot;Makefile&quot; the path to the xfree-sourcecode tree by
changig the Variable TOP. Then type &quot;make&quot; to build the driver
&quot;synaptics_drv.o&quot;.

3. Copy the driver-modul &quot;snyaptics_drv.o&quot; into the XFree-module path
&quot;ex. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/&quot;.

4. Load the driver by changig the XFree configuration file through
adding the line 'Load &quot;synaptics&quot;' in the modul-section.

5. Add/Replace in the InputDevice-section for the touchpad the
following lines:

Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;
Driver &quot;synaptics&quot;
Identifier &quot;Mouse[1]&quot;
Option &quot;Device&quot; &quot;/dev/psaux&quot;
Option &quot;Edges&quot; &quot;1900 5400 1800 3900&quot;
Option &quot;Finger&quot; &quot;25 30&quot;
Option &quot;MaxTapTime&quot; &quot;20&quot;
Option &quot;MaxTapMove&quot; &quot;220&quot;
Option &quot;VertScrollDelta&quot; &quot;100&quot;
Option &quot;MinSpeed&quot; &quot;0.02&quot;
Option &quot;MaxSpeed&quot; &quot;0.18&quot;
Option &quot;AccelFactor&quot; &quot;0.0010&quot;
# Option &quot;Repeater&quot; &quot;/dev/ps2mouse&quot;
# Option &quot;SHMConfig&quot; &quot;on&quot;
EndSection

Change the Identifier to the same name as in the ServerLayout-section.
The Option &quot;Repeater&quot; und &quot;SHMConfig&quot; are at the moment for testing.

6. Add the &quot;CorePointer&quot; option to the InputDevice line at the ServerLayout section:

Section &quot;ServerLayout&quot;
...
InputDevice &quot;Mouse[1]&quot; &quot;CorePointer&quot;
...

7. Start/Restart the X-Server. If the touchpad doesn't work go to
step 8.

8. a) Check the XFree-Logfiles
b) Try to start the XServer with 'startx -- -logverbose 8' for more
Output
If you can't get the driver working, mail the logfiles and the
configuration file to me.