Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Late last year Gary and others volunteered to test my 802b1 build, with a nice test practice from Gary of drawing spirals. It took me a while to get back onto this (apologies - real life intruded in a big way), but I have been working on this again, hoping to close it. I took 4 laptops (2 with

Re: New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-18 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:17 -0500, Steven M. Parrish wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010 01:43:54 John Gilmore wrote: Keyboard and mouse will not wakeup from sleep. Can be fixed by disabling power management in Sugar. Is there any reason for cutting release after release that don't

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: Late last year Gary and others volunteered to test my 802b1 build, with a nice test practice from Gary of drawing spirals. It took me a while to get back onto this (apologies - real life intruded in a big way), but I have been working on this again, hoping to close it. I

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:  in my testing, setting the final argument to 0 resulted in extremely jerky performance. Was that with the new or old psmouse code? Have you got a test procedure I can try, maybe drawing spirals isn't the only relevant test...?  

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: in my testing, setting the final argument to 0 resulted in extremely jerky performance. Was that with the new or old psmouse code? Have you got a test procedure I can try, maybe drawing spirals isn't

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/18/2010 07:23 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: * Going from xset 7/4 0 to 7/4 1 did not make a noticeable improvement -- and does bring the drawback that a fast finger swipe no longer gets you across the screen. This is a usability regression, and I don't have much evidence to show to counter

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: What you see as a regression I see as an enhancement.  My evidence is based on what deployments/pilots talk about when they come give reports at 1cc.  When we talk about touchpad problems it often mentioned that the

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/18/2010 01:31 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard A. Smithrich...@laptop.org wrote: What you see as a regression I see as an enhancement. My evidence is based on what deployments/pilots talk about when they come give reports at 1cc. When we talk about

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/18/2010 12:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: You are suggesting xset m 7/4 4? My tests where with 7/4 1... oh! sorry -- i was mis-remembering. you're correct that i previously recommended that the last element should be 1, and that's still correct. (although in practice greater values

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
smith wrote: On 01/18/2010 12:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: You are suggesting xset m 7/4 4? My tests where with 7/4 1... oh! sorry -- i was mis-remembering. you're correct that i previously recommended that the last element should be 1, and that's still correct. (although in