[olpc-help] Jumpy mouse problem

[dysumner]

I and several others have been using these 3 XO's and have had regular mouse jumping problems.  So far, we have temporarily fixed the problem EVERY TIME since my last post by wiping off both our fingers and the track pad. Sometimes we have wiped them more than once, and wiping on synthetic fabrics (e.g. a pile sweater) might not work.  I recommend trying it.   -- Cheers, Dawn


dys wrote:
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> I have purchased 3 XO's for various people, including one for myself.  All three have had this problem, intermittently. The two problems are the mouse jumping to the lower right corner (with log saying it sets to x=0, y-0) and occasionally, the mouse tracks a finger that is hovering over the track pad.  We can often get the problem to go away by wiping a palm across the entire track pad several times or by holding a finger firmly on the track pad.  Neither of these solutions works reliably every time, but so far repeating these and wiping our fingers on something else have always resulted in a useable trackpad with less than 10 attempts (I haven't been counting).  The behavior strongly suggests to me that there is a charge or capacitor problem.
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> Cheers
> Dawn
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