There's a folk-remedy for touchy touchpads : applying chalk dust. Can someone with a really bad touchpad test this out to confirm?<br><br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Moving this thread to the "repairs" list (let's try to make our repair<br>
discussions public - the results of the conductive ink pen will probably<br>
be interesting to lots of people beyond support-gang.) Thanks! --Mel<br>
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Alan Claver wrote:<br>
> On 5/6/08 10:00 PM, "John Gunkel" <<a href="mailto:jgunkel@gmail.com">jgunkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Of the two M-stock machines I have received, one of them was not<br>
>> remedied by a recalibration. I am going to take a quick look at the<br>
>> ribbon cable and see if the "circuit repair" pen (basically conductive<br>
>> ink) I have will do the trick. That is, if it's a bent-ribbon-cable<br>
>> problem.<br>
><br>
> I think this applies only to the dead on 1 axis trackpad issue. We've seen<br>
> several of those. Seems to be a different issue than the jumpy trackpad<br>
> which we've been told may be related to an ALPS manufacturing issue.<br>
><br>
> In my case, it's a jumpy trackpad that didn't get fixed by recalibrating or<br>
> updating to 703.candidate. The pointer always want to jump to the left<br>
> center of the screen regardless of the starting position.<br>
><br>
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