Touch pad

[David Leeming]

You wrote:

We (the techteam) have some questions:

 - Are there any XOs for which mouse performance is worse since the
   kernel upgrade?
 - What are the average environmental conditions (humidity level, dust,
   temperature) when you are testing the new driver?

Please answer at your leisure.

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My answer:

So far, I have successfully installed the updated kernel on my B4s but not
on the secure G1G1s as that requires a different approach that I have not
gotten my head around.

I used the updated B4s as my "teaching laptops" at the Batuna trial (see
Youtube link at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands). I did
notice some misbehaviour. I can't quantify it and it seemed less of a
problem than before. As far as I could tell, the cursor sometimes became
very sluggish but did not jump around as before when the issue was observed.
The 4 finger salute to recalibrate the touchpad worked well. So my
impression is that there is still some misbehaviour of the touchpad but it
is improved. This is however based on only a few days experience.

This was in the Solomon Islands, where it is often above 90% humidity and
32-24 degrees C. Very bad conditions for the touch pad!


David Leeming
OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network
Honiara, Solomon Islands


-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Garrison [mailto:erik.garrison at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Erik
Garrison
Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:49 a.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: richard at laptop.org; devel at laptop.org; greg at laptop.org
Subject: Re: Touch pad

David,










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Erik

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:49:06AM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> Hi Richard, sorry I am a bit slow with Linux :) can you say where to do
the
> ls -l and uname -a? Just need a bit of clarification on how to check it is
> installed.
> 
> By the way, I DID notice a bit of jumping cursor behaviour after the
install
> on a couple of XOs. The 4-finger salute helped a lot. Too early to make
any
> conclusions, as maybe it wasn't installed properly.
> 
> 
> David Leeming
> OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network
> Honiara, Solomon Islands
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Smith [mailto:smithbone at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Richard A.
> Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2008 2:43 a.m.
> To: David Leeming
> Cc: pgf at laptop.org; devel at laptop.org
> Subject: Re: Touch pad
> 
> David Leeming wrote:
> 
> > The cp command gave a string of complaints that the source and
destination
> > files "are the same file". I am therefore unsure if it worked
successfully
> > as per the comment below on the wiki page. However after a reboot the
> > touchpad still works...
> > 
> >>>>> If you omit the -a in the above recipe, the vmlinuz symlink will not
> be
> > updated correctly
> 
> nod.  There's a lot of noise when you do the copy.  A quick ls -l to 
> verify that the bzImage symlink now points at your new kernel can be 
> used if you have doubts.  And then uname -a when you reboot to verify 
> the commit ID matches what you think you installed.  Always a good 
> check.  I've installed the wrong .rpm a few times.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child
> 
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