<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span>I would like to be able to get one condensed email a day instead of the high volume of individual emails. I do not know the List Administrator Password at <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.laptop.org/admin/olpc-open">http://lists.laptop.org/admin/olpc-open</a></span><br><div> </div>- James<br>720.252.3868<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org><br>To: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry@gmail.com><br>Cc: olpc-open <olpc-open@lists.laptop.org>; OLPC Developer's List <devel@lists.laptop.org>; sugar <sugar@lists.laptop.org><br>Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:34:30 AM<br>Subject: Re:
[Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue<br><br>
Bryan Berry wrote:<br><br>> 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the<br>> touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem?<br>> <br>> we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the<br>> kids hold down the 4 corner buttons as recommended in the XO user guide<br>> but that doesn't seem to consistently fix the problem.<br>> <br>> Dust is an issue at the schools but that can't explain the high rate of<br>> jumpy cursors. Please assist<br><br>Can you explain in detail the behavior of the cursor when it's<br>acting erratically?<br><br>There are many independent touchpad problems that look alike.<br>Of these, the only one I could fix in software was this one:<br> <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2804" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2804</a><br><br>The symptoms of #2804 are quite distinctive: the cursor jumps immediately<br>towards the
bottom-right corner of the screen each time you put your<br>finger on the touchpad.<br><br>Dilinger and Smithbone have been working on the calibration issue,<br>but I don't know if they finally succeeded.<br><br>Dilinger also had a cleaned up version of the driver, combining<br>together several touchpad fixes, cleanups and re-enabling the pen<br>tablet too (#5268). That patch-set had been held until after Update.1<br>because it introduced yet another regression (#6079).<br><br>I don't know who has been working on it, if anybody. Given our<br>current situation, I might soon find plenty of free time to work<br>on these things :-)<br><br>-- <br> \____/<br> _| | Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a><br> \|__=_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project"<br>_______________________________________________<br>Olpc-open mailing list<br><a
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