the old keypad behavior gets too sensitive

[Paul Fox]

stephen john smoogen wrote:
 > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
 > > I usually operate my XO with an external USB trackball, and have no
 > > problem with cursor positioning.  Lately I've often needed to operate
 > > XOs (hdw early G1G1, but F11 build) with the native keypad, and I can
 > > appreciate the many complaints I have heard about using the old keypad.
 > 
 > I have been running into this with the XO-1.5 prototype but thought it
 > was either a prototype issue or my fat fingers.. however I noticed it
 > with my kid also. Pretty much the same behaviour you list below.. in
 > low humidity the cursor will move without touching the keyboard. Is
 > there anything I can do to help debug/fix this for people (New Mexico
 > is pretty much always low humidity)

um, we've had a lot of trouble with XO-1 touchpads, which is what mikus
was using.  i think this is the first report of serious erratic
operation on an XO-1.5.  :-/

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org