Re: [sugar] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-11 Thread Arjun Sarwal
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. When using the XO touchpad, a sure way to get erratic cursor behavior is contacting its surface with two fingers (instead of one). And, I can confirm that this something _very_ commonly done by the

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-09 Thread Waqas Toor
Hello all, On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, will try this out On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:01 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. --SJ, who is looking for a cite... Yes this is a discovery

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-08 Thread Samuel Klein
Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. --SJ, who is looking for a cite... On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks, will try this out On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:01 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. --SJ, who is looking for a cite... On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Day 3 of the pilots at

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
One thing to note also, I have observed that many people (including myself) out of habit do a quick 'double-tap' on the touchpad for a 'left-click' (which is standard for most US 'typical' laptops). I've noticed, 8 times out of 10 times touching the keyboard like this, the cursor and

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:11:15 +0545 Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dilinger/andres does this build have the latest touchpad driver? http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/olpc3/build8/devel_jffs2/ I will download it and try it out Nope. We have not included the latest

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks Carol, this instruction for disabling the corner sensitivity is extremely useful! I may use it in the custom build I roll out, some 3-4 months from now. We plan to work on this soon. The plan is to have a delay

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-28 Thread Bryan Berry
hey guys, thanks to all who have replied to my issue w/ the jumpy cursor. I haven't been able to test out the responses I have gotten because I have been sick in bed for the last couple days. Will reply once I am coherent enough to read the e-mails. On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:39 +0200, Bernie

jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the kids

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Steve Holton
Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? I saw pretty severe trackpad issues on one of my XO's on a single day and haven't seen a re-occurrence yet. At the time, it looked clearly related to static fields. On the other hand, I have seen (and fixed) a very similar behavior on a

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Bryan, Similar issues were dominant at the India pilot too... On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Carol Lerche
The touchpad issues were a problem in NYC as well. I noticed that it was most problematic with certain kids who were very touchy...they seemed to always have their hands fiddling with the touchpad. Also most common to occur when using paint or colors activity. Only way I could clear the problem

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks Carol, this instruction for disabling the corner sensitivity is extremely useful! I may use it in the custom build I roll out, some 3-4 months from now. I hope some of the hardware techs at OLPC like Richard Smith can shed some light on the jumpy touchpad. Rebooting works for me as well

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Bryan Berry wrote: 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the kids hold down the 4 corner buttons as recommended in the XO

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
Steve Holton wrote: Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? I saw pretty severe trackpad issues on one of my XO's on a single day and haven't seen a re-occurrence yet. At the time, it looked clearly related to static fields. On the other hand, I have seen (and fixed) a

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:34:30 +0200 Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Berry wrote: 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Andres Salomon wrote: Yeah, all the code's in master. No known bugs in the touchpad driver, but the kernel was just updated to 2.6.25. Of course, the most important change might be the PT-in-relative-mode thing; when the GS screws up, just push down hard and use the PT to do what you want