john wrote: > > :-) you're right -- it _is_ awesome. wad seems to have mastered > > the art of getting the laptop to really go together right after > > the conversion. > > One of the things I asked wad to improve when he was looking for > things to fix for the XO-1.5 was the incredible flakey keyboard. > Everyone knows when I type an email message on an XO, because it's > always so full of typos that it's just not worth going back to fix > them all. One of my XOs has a CTRL key that would press itself at > random intervals, which was really fun under Sugar. One would think > that a keyboard designer would make very sure that the shift-keys were > more reliable than the letter keys (since they get pressed a lot more > often), but in the XO-1 it was the opposite. I eventually tried to > batter my way through the alleged OLPC parts-and-repair process (and > failed); but somebody nice took pity on me and mailed me a spare > keyboard.
heh -- i think that was me. i think you have the keyboard that i no longer needed after installing my USB version. :-) fwiw, i'm under the impression that getting replacement parts isn't very difficult these days. > > Wad said improving the keyboard wasn't on the main program for 1.5 but > he'd see what he could do. Did anything happen? i recall that the keyboard density may have changed part way through XO-1 production (near the time that the new touchpad was introduced?), but i don't know that anything specific changed for 1.5. paul > > John > =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel