On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[email protected]> 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) > In my case, the keypad exhibits too much sensitivity. Whenever the > humidity is low, just waving my fingers half an inch above the keypad is > enough to result in cursor position movement. And the cursor jumps both > as I am bringing a finger (through the air) down onto the keypad, AND > when I am lifting the finger (through the air) away from the keypad. > [Also, just placing a finger at the "mouse buttons" at the bottom of the > keypad is often enough to cause the cursor position to change.] > > Leaving the keypad alone (to give it time to self-calibrate) does not > seem to help. The four-finger recalibrate works, but its effect soon > "wears off", and the keypad goes back to being "too sensitive" again. > > > Are there any software parameters that I can play with, to try to > "dampen" the unwanted cursor position changes that I'm seeing ? > > Thanks, mikus > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
