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Today's Topics:

1. Problem with laptop (jpff)
2. Re: Problem with laptop (nick robinson)
3. Re: Problem with laptop (Shane McEwan)
4. Re: Problem with laptop (Alex Butcher (LUG))

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:39:40 +0100 (BST)
From: jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] Problem with laptop
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1609021429310.22904@snout.codemist.co.uk>
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I realise this is a long shot but I am desperate!

My Toshibba lapto has gone funny. It is running OpenSuSE 13.2
Yesterday apparently unprovoked eery time I type a space it returms /; nd
hen the space. As you might guess it makes it had to do anything,
especially as I am emacs+xterm use in the main.

I have tried rebooting of course to no avail,and tried various Fn+key
combinations. I am assuming it needs sme had no idea how. Also tred
recovery boot.....

I can ssh into it but that s no way to work from an nient undepowered
laptop. Any suggesions ther than buying a new computr which I have
thought of already

==John ff

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:59:51 +0100
From: nick robinson <nick@njrobinson.net>
To: jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>, Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Problem with laptop
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<CADo8qK7haOqR_boB-TZcfLP40ZsRyBxiuzhAhOBazDkcHqCXqg@mail.gmail.com>
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try boot off your original dvd in rescue mode and see if its still happening
since the original install worked it should rule out a software issue. (i
dont know if you tried recovery via grub or if you booted off the disk)

On 2 September 2016 at 14:39, jpff via Bristol <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> I realise this is a long shot but I am desperate!
>
> My Toshibba lapto has gone funny. It is running OpenSuSE 13.2
> Yesterday apparently unprovoked eery time I type a space it returms /; nd
> hen the space. As you might guess it makes it had to do anything,
> especially as I am emacs+xterm use in the main.
>
> I have tried rebooting of course to no avail,and tried various Fn+key
> combinations. I am assuming it needs sme had no idea how. Also tred
> recovery boot.....
>
> I can ssh into it but that s no way to work from an nient undepowered
> laptop. Any suggesions ther than buying a new computr which I have thought
> of already
>
> ==John ff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bristol mailing list
> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:11:18 +0100
From: Shane McEwan <shane@mcewan.id.au>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Problem with laptop
Message-ID: <fc342416-5810-7156-b184-8b874a9890f0@mcewan.id.au>
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It looks like you've got other keyboard problems! Or is that just sloppy
typing? :-)

One thing to try is if there's somewhere in the BIOS that lets you type
a space see if it happens in there as well. If it does then it's
probably a hardware problem. If there's nothing in the BIOS that lets
you type them try in a GRUB boot screen which has a really simple
keyboard driver.

Also, try plugging in an external USB keyboard and see if that's affected.

If it's only happening in Linux then you might have inadvertently put in
some sort of funky keyboard map. Try 'setxkbmap gb' and see if that does
anything.

Shane.

On 02/09/16 14:39, jpff via Bristol wrote:
> I realise this is a long shot but I am desperate!
>
> My Toshibba lapto has gone funny. It is running OpenSuSE 13.2
> Yesterday apparently unprovoked eery time I type a space it returms /;
> nd hen the space. As you might guess it makes it had to do anything,
> especially as I am emacs+xterm use in the main.
>
> I have tried rebooting of course to no avail,and tried various Fn+key
> combinations. I am assuming it needs sme had no idea how. Also tred
> recovery boot.....
>
> I can ssh into it but that s no way to work from an nient undepowered
> laptop. Any suggesions ther than buying a new computr which I have
> thought of already
>
> ==John ff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bristol mailing list
> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:55:07 +0100
From: "Alex Butcher (LUG)" <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Shane McEwan <shane@mcewan.id.au>, Bristol and Bath Linux User
Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Problem with laptop
Message-ID: <62853494-CC27-48AB-8916-7D77476B7003@assursys.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

If it's a hardware problem and the keyboard has failed, then it's often a fairly cheap (£20-30), quick and easy job to replace the keyboard (after all, they need to supply them with different layouts for different locales). Google around for the service manual, find the part number, order from eBay, Amazon, Xenon, etc.

Best Regards,
Alex

On 2 September 2016 15:11:18 BST, Shane McEwan via Bristol <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>It looks like you've got other keyboard problems! Or is that just
>sloppy
>typing? :-)
>
>One thing to try is if there's somewhere in the BIOS that lets you type
>
>a space see if it happens in there as well. If it does then it's
>probably a hardware problem. If there's nothing in the BIOS that lets
>you type them try in a GRUB boot screen which has a really simple
>keyboard driver.
>
>Also, try plugging in an external USB keyboard and see if that's
>affected.
>
>If it's only happening in Linux then you might have inadvertently put
>in
>some sort of funky keyboard map. Try 'setxkbmap gb' and see if that
>does
>anything.
>
>Shane.
>
>On 02/09/16 14:39, jpff via Bristol wrote:
>> I realise this is a long shot but I am desperate!
>>
>> My Toshibba lapto has gone funny. It is running OpenSuSE 13.2
>> Yesterday apparently unprovoked eery time I type a space it returms
>/;
>> nd hen the space. As you might guess it makes it had to do anything,
>> especially as I am emacs+xterm use in the main.
>>
>> I have tried rebooting of course to no avail,and tried various Fn+key
>> combinations. I am assuming it needs sme had no idea how. Also tred
>> recovery boot.....
>>
>> I can ssh into it but that s no way to work from an nient undepowered
>> laptop. Any suggesions ther than buying a new computr which I have
>> thought of already
>>
>> ==John ff
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bristol mailing list
>> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
>
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