Arjun Sarwal wrote: > 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 >> 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 user guide >> but that doesn't seem to consistently fix the problem. >> >> > > I thought there was a fix in Update.1 for the jumpy mouse bug ? > > Other than that, we had observed that the touchpad behaved differently > because many kids chose to use a larger/smaller area of their fingers. > Since this is a capacitive touchpad, perhaps that has got something to > do with the amount of finger area in contact, or the amount of > pressure that one puts (some kids chose to press harder and harder on > the touchpad when they couldn't seem to get the cursor under control) > ? > > >> Dust is an issue at the schools but that can't explain the high rate of >> jumpy cursors. Please assist >> >> > > We didn't find any direct relation with dust as such. Humidity, and > sweaty fingers, though, did seem to make things consistently > difficult. > > I don't know if it works with the XO's, but I know that a useful workaround for laptop touchpad in general is that if it doesn't work well/smoothly, put a piece of paper over it. A "post it" works well.
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