On 10/11/09, JoeHill <joeh...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: > > moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on > > the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will cause > > mplayer to scroll forwards or backwards (any of the available 10 or 60 > > sec, or 5 min). At times it continues like this until the > > end/beginning of the file. Many times it seems to appear randomly, > > perhaps on earth quakes or when a heavy truck passes in the > > neighbourhood. > > > > I suspect that the behaviour is caused by the accelerometer that > > should be present on the notebook, the one that should catch > > out-of-norm accelerations, shut down the hard drive and prevent data > > loss. I was once curious on how this works on Linux, and installed > > couple of packages similar to hdapsd and hdaps-utils. Since I removed > > these, without any change in mplayer behaviour. As a final note, > > mplayer looks like the only misbehaving application. Oh, and all this > > happens on an HP Pavilion dv3. > > > > Any ideas on how to work around this issue? Thank you > > > This is a long shot, but mplayer sometimes does that to me in a > relatively minor way because the mousewheel moves slightly without me > touching > it (my mouse is kinda old). > > Is it possible that the scroll pad on your laptop is being activated by > shocks > or vibrations? Is there some way you could temporarily disable the touchpad > and > test it? > > Anyway, like I say, this is a totally wild guess, but the problem did sound > somewhat familiar to me. > > Another thing to try is to run mplayer from a terminal and see if the output > gives you any hints as to what's happening in the background. > > -- > J > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
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