Weblog - Jan Wagemakers -

I have an old C600 DELL laptop, running at 750Mhz with 128MB, surfing the web with firefox works, although sometimes slow because of swapping. But reading\writing mail\news with mutt - slrn - vim works blazing fast

However, some weeks ago, the keyboard didn't work anymore. The shift and z keys were broken. When I press on them there is no reaction.

I have tried to fix them by using contact-cleaner, without success





So, I have ordered a ''new'' keyboard at Now That's IT and replaced the broken keyboard. Replacing the keyboard was not difficult to do.



I'm now writing this with the replaced keyboard. Seems to work without a problem. Hopefully I can save this file by pressing ZZ

I have installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, which works nice except that I see some strange behaviour with pictures/images.

For example, when I take a look at my weblog, there is a picture missing.



Searching the web, I found that this problem was already reported as bug 411831.

So, after reading this bug report, I have edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add a line with XAANoOffscreenPixmaps to the Device Section.

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR]"
        Driver          "nv"
        Option          "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        Option          "backingstore"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

With XAANoOffscreenPixmaps everything just looks fine