On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, <fors...@ozonline.com.au> wrote: > Since upgrading to a paraguay build of 0.84, the behaviour of the capacitive > pad seems to have changed. Rather than infrequent long periods of failure > where I needed to lick my finger or plug in a mouse, it seems to have shorter > periods more frequently of raised sensitivity, as if the pad is being > periodically recalibrated. > > It is no longer a problem because the behaviour always clears before it has > been much of a problem. > > Has something been fixed? Is the patch necessary?
There are still places with dust/humidity conditions where the flakiness is pretty constant. Having an option to switch to the resistive pad in those circumstances is something we want to test. > > Tony > > > > >> I've attached two patches: (1) a new touchpad section for the control >> panel and (2) new icons for sugar-artwork used by the control panel. >> >> The idea is that on the CL1 OLPC XO 1.0 laptops, we want to give a >> choice of either the resistive or capacitive touchpads on the theory >> that the resistive touchpad may be easier to use in situations where >> the capacitive touchpad is problematic. This patch looks for the >> existence of the node "/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/ptmode" and >> will only appear in the Control Panel if this node is present (just >> the CL1 version of the XO 1.0). >> >> We still need a script t be added to olpc-utils that is executed at >> boot time to: (1) change the mode of >> /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/ptmode to 666; and (2) write a 1 to >> that node if a flag file exists ("/home/olpc/.olpc-pentablet-mode"). >> >> I plan to make a few adjustments to the icons (e.g., use the current >> XO colors, for example), but wanted to make this version available for >> testing ASAP. >> >> enjoy. >> >> -walter >> >> --- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> _____________________________________________________ >> This mail has been virus scanned by Australia On Line >> see http://www.australiaonline.net.au/mailscanning >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel