#5975 NORM Never A: Loss of keyboard input!

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#5975: Loss of keyboard input!
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 Reporter:  PeterC  |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro  |     Version:                
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:          |   Blockedby:                
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 (excerpts from a longer message on problems I observed with my XO, posted
 elsewhere)
 And NOW to my CRIPPLING hardware problems. First, 10 days after the XO,
 arrived, it just stopped working. I took out the battery cleaned the
 contacts and reinstalled it a couple of times. It then started working
 again. Is there a problem here??
 REALLY CRIPPLING: Shortly after I installed Opera (15 minutes or so
 later), input from the keyboard went crazy. At first I thought it was just
 in Opera, but then it turned out to be general. When I typed either the
 wrong characters were entered or later nothing happened. I could not even
 try to fix THAT, so I called for an RMA.
 I was on the phone waiting for over an hour. There must be a lot of other
 machines being returned for repairs. Is it the same problem I had? I
 haven't seen that mentioned by anyone else yet, but S
 This is a computer that needs to be reliable under rough circumstance. if
 these computers are shoddily made, the project is doomed.
 Final thoughts: despite all this it is hard not to like, even love, the
 XO, but really it is a project, not a product. The product needs to be
 finished, or it ill turn off its potential audience. (I hope a certain
 Prof. Negroponte is listening.)
 After finishing the product, I would also make it available for first-
 world kids. The price of the product could be, say, $250, $200 for the
 computer plus a $50 donation to the project. It is really adorable and
 people will buy it and get hooked on the project. This is just a variant
 on G1G1, and it would work.
 Despite my disappointments, I am still guardedly enthusiastic about the
 project, but there is a lot of work that is needed before it can succeed.

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