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Browser automatically refreshes and Home folder window opens

I am facing a very strange problem. Out of the blue, my browser starts refreshing itself infinitely. My first guess was firefox is messing up. I installed chrome. But, it happens in chrome as well. Other than that, sometimes my home folder…
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beep not working since upgrade to 20.04.1 LTS

I've just finished upgrading to Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS, and so far, only one issue has come up: When run as user, the beep command returns beep: Error: Could not open any device`. Running sudo beep does not work, as expected. After a little bit…
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lxc nvidia error: xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)

In the process of trying to have lxc container (host 16.04, lxc 14.04) share nvidia I run into this error when starting X in the container: startx -- vt8 I get the following error: xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not…
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Configuring non wacom drawing tablet

I am a linux user and I am a total newbie when it comes to input devices and drivers. I have recently bought xp-pen star 06 tablet tablet specifactions the tablet works poorly with evdev. The mouse moves with the tablet but also poorly, the pen nip…
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Who reads `/etc/default/keyboard`?

And I do not care about the console here (I care about X11)... I see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that my X-server picks up xkb_rules evdev from somewhere I can’t find. It also seems to take xkb_model and xkb_layout from the config file…
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Switching from libinput to evdev

A few weeks of experimentation with libinput led me to believe that many of its advanced mouse-related features are not (yet?) implemented. Most importantly to me, you cannot block the mouse wheel with it, nor can you emulate the mouse wheel…
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USB Endoscope not recognised as a MTP Device. How to Correct?

I have a newly acquired USB Endoscope (aka 'snake camera') which works a treat on a friend's Apple Mac, but does not work on my Dell laptop running 14.04. The Endoscope is recognised as a device: $ ls -l /dev/video* crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0…
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How can I get absolute touchpad coordinates

From what I understand, earlier versions of the Synaptic driver in Ubuntu had an 'absolute mode' for the trackpad which allowed the user to access absolute coordinates as well as relative coordinates. However, Synaptic decided to remove it(not sure…
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Touch Screen Clicks Repeatedly on Press - Can't Drag

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS recognizes my touchscreen correctly. Tapping the screen sends the correct ABS coords and BTN_TOUCH. The problem is that BTN_TOUCH is set to a 1, then immediately set to a 0 even though my finger never leaves the screen. This means…
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Inconsistent mouse X events for Acer T231H multitouch monitor

Looks like a bug OK, I believe this is a bug in the xorg evdev driver, but as ubuntu-bug for precise so kindly asked me to work this trough the support channels, I first went ant reported this here. In the meantime, I've upgraded to quantal and…
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Dell Active Pen PN350M not working properly

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell Inspiron 15 7591 2-in-1. The laptop comes with a stylus, the Dell PN350M Active Pen, which unfortunately does not work properly under my system. I found out that the pen uses Microsoft Pen Protocol to pair with my…
Parth Shah
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Random freezes in Ubuntu 16.04 due to mouse and keyboard devices being ignored

I have the same problem as described here but not enough reputation to comment or answer. Also I've read related questions / solutions. I'm experiencing random freezes unrelated to a specific activity - sometimes just typing in a terminal. Mouse and…
Emanuel George Hategan
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Monitor is detecting as Touchpad instead of TouchScreen

When i upgraded from SUSE to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the touchscreen monitor is detecting as TOUCHPAD instead of TOUCHSCREEN. It is using the ELO drivers for touch screen Functionality. I debugged this issue, in the Xorg Log the type is shown as a "TOUCH…
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Monoprice Drawing Tablet MP1060-HA60

I've purchased this model 6814 tablet from Monoprice and am trying to use it in Gimp and Inkscape in 14.04. It seems that previously, there was a driver "wizardpen" for non-Wacom tablets which is no longer maintained and not available for Trusty or…
Tobias J
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Touchsreen always returns cursor to upper left corner

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a brand new Fujitsu Lifebook T901. The touchscreen seems well-calibrated and recognizes touches, but it always moves the mouse to the upper left corner when clicked. XInput test looks something like this: motion…
Nikita Kitaev
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