Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, which has Nivida Gforce 2 Go graphics. It is difficult to determine exactly what is happening, but every few minutes random screen activity happens, windows flipping from foreground to background, and so on, and on at least one occasion the contents of the address box (URL) in Firefox were pasted as the command line in a shell console that was open. It looks very much like short bursts of random keyboard and/or mouse inputs are happening.
To try to isolate the problem, I have disabled the Synaptics touchpad in the BIOS, and am using an external PS/2 Logitech trackball. No difference.
The machine is dual-boot, I booted into Win 2000 for the first time in many months, and the problem was not evident there, so it is a Linux thing.
I have reverted to the "nv" driver for now, no difference. The xorg, kernel and kde are all fully up to date.
I don't expect this one to be easy. Maybe someone can suggest some meaningful tests that could be done to help isolate the problem?
To try to isolate the problem, I have disabled the Synaptics touchpad in the BIOS, and am using an external PS/2 Logitech trackball. No difference.
The machine is dual-boot, I booted into Win 2000 for the first time in many months, and the problem was not evident there, so it is a Linux thing.
I have reverted to the "nv" driver for now, no difference. The xorg, kernel and kde are all fully up to date.
I don't expect this one to be easy. Maybe someone can suggest some meaningful tests that could be done to help isolate the problem?
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