Problems in Edgy

Submitted by Aaron Oxenrider on Tue, 2006-10-31 07:00.

The first thing is a pretty basic thing that most people know about. It isn't really an Edgy problem but apparently I didn't mention it before. The Synaptic touchpad is too touchy with the tap to click function. So you fix it by typing this into /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the "Synaptic Touchpad" area:

Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

The next problem I don't quite understand. For some reason when I installed Edgy, the included Firefox couldn't handle flash (with the flash plugin installed). It just crashed every time I tried to go to Homestarrunner. The fix is pretty easy though, you just add this line to /etc/firefox/firefoxrc :

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

otherwise you can try this:

1. Comment out the composite section in x.org
2. Change your color depth to 24 bit

The first thing worked for me, so I'm not sure about the others.

Hope this helps others attempting the switch.

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