first play with new XO 1.5 machines

[Paul Fox]

james wrote:
 > G'day Tabitha,
 > 
 > Several of the experiences you mention are common to the recent Fedora
 > 11 builds on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 machines.  Some are peculiar to the
 > XO-1.5 machines while development is continuing.
 > 
 > This trac query:
 > http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=com
 > ponent&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&milest
 > one=1.5-F11
 > shows the experiences that are known to be peculiar to the XO-1.5.
 > 
 > You might also be interested in:
 > 
 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.5_B2
 > 
 > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
 > > Testing 5 of the new XO 1.5 machines - our first experiences...
 > > 
 > > hardware seems more responsive
 > 
 > Agreed.
 > 
 > > great touch pad - can feel edges and has tap click on touch pad so you
 > > dont have to push the button, we like it
 > 
 > Agreed, the edges are helpful.  I'd not noticed tap click.  It works.
 > 
 > > video card issues  with on screen animations - e.g. frame gives
 > > flickers on boot the display is a mass of colours - some kind of video
 > > driver fault
 > 
 > Boot animation corruption I also observed on os30, but not on os32.  You
 > didn't mention which build you were using.
 > 
 > Frame giving flickers is #9333.
 > 
 > > many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly
 > > - frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand
 > > keys, divide/multiply key.

is this reproducible in the OFW diagnostics?   ("test /keyboard")

paul
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