Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. The connector is designed for a single insertion, and no removal. This wasn't clear to us/Quanta until recently.
We've discussed replacing it. The idea behind that connector is that it will never become disconnected accidentally. It'll probably happen, but until then: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:XO1.5_USBKB_Photo10.jpg wad On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > After the switch to the ALPS touchpad + controller, it's nice to see > the departure of the 2 ribbon cables that don't have clips (the extra > bit of plastic came off too easily, making it hard to disconnect the > cables), but we now have a new difficulty: > > The small ribbon cable that connects the mouse to the ALPS board is > clipped into the white sockets on both ends with little black clips. > These clips come off really easily and are hard to put back in place. > > I've seen this happen a few times now and it's a pain. Any chance of > improvements in the future? > > cheers > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
