hi everyone,
some days ago, while browsing the web on my favorite websites, I felt that they all seemed to be slower. Firefox even started to need around 100 % of my CPU what NEVER happened before. It was interesting that pages like Google-search or simple text-pages weren’t affected. The problem obviously had to do something with the stuff surrounding the text ( pics, flash, whatever, … ). At first I was kind of helpless because I didn’t know what caused this mess, but then I remembered an update of my NVIDIA-driver. After a bit of searching I found the responsible option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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Option "NoAccel" "false"
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After restarting X, it worked again. Maybe this helps some people.
Some days ago i realized that my touchpad of the Eee-PC wasn’t working as expected anymore. The left button works but the right button does nothing. First I thought of a problem with the synaptics-modules but after trying different kernels and distros there as no doubt anymore … the button is somehow broken … 
Well, you can imagine how annoying it is to work without the right mouse-button (pasting doesn’t work, fluxbox-menu doesn’t work, browsing with firefox becomes a pain,…).
I searched around to find a possible solution for this problem and discovered 2 very convenient tools: xbindkeys and xautomation.
After compiling and installing the packages, I created a config file called .xbindkeysrc in my home directory with the following content:
"xte 'mouseclick 3'"
Menu
"xte 'mouseclick 2'"
Pause
xte is a tool from xautomation which simulates different X-Events like mouseclicks or keyboard events. After creating the config-file I had to add “xbindkeys &” to my .xinitrc so that the daemon runs whenever X starts.
Now, whenever I want a right-click (button 3), I press the “Menu”-button and if I want a middle-click (button 2) I press the “Pause”-button.
Filed under amusing, linux
I’m just posting a small article to tell you that my EEE 701 now works like a charm. I was messing around with the kernel for a couple of days now to find out why my webcam didn’t work until yesterday, when I discovered that I disabled it in the BIOS-settings … Yeah, I know, … I’m an idiot … Oh rly? … Ya…. Rly!
Well, everything works now. I’m currently playing around with motion, a nice tool for capturing pictures from a webcam.
Have a nice day!
