I've seen this as an increasing problem on my personal XO, which gets quite a bit of heavy use, as evidenced by the some what polished area of the touchpad, ringed with brownish dirt.
>> As we've reported before, it also seems to get worse when the machines >> get dusty, and fat/sweaty fingers don't seem to help either I seems that the build up of dirt on the touchpad areas maybe effecting the capacitance of the touchpad surface. For those unaware, generally, touchpads use capacitance to detect your finger. If you have ever tried to use a touch pad with droplets of water on your fingers hand, you may have seen similar behavior on an otherwise normal touchpad. Perhaps a careful cleaning of the touchpad area with mild soap and drying may help. The extra poor behavior in humid conditions could be due to an increase in the conductivity of the built up grime from water absorption. -Joachim ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
