Wednesday, January 16, 2008

OLPC panic attack #1 touchy touchpad!

ok, the kids got to see the OLPC today...

Tara immediately adopted it; Rohan seemed to accept this, so it is now "Tara's computer"

(Rohan tends to dominate the previous two, iMac and Flatscreen, due to them having his music)

first panic attack: the touchpad is broken!

or so we thought.

fiddling with it, slowly using it, twirling... all seemed to fail.

it jumped to the lower right corner without fail, whenever we tried to use it..

finally resorted to GOOGLE... found there is a "4 finger salute" to recalibrate...

and then full power cycle seems to have fixed it:

it is capacitive detector, so if you are touching it on bootup...
this can cause calibration problems...

did a full power cycle, and seems better now...

whew.

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