[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

[James Cameron]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:24:53PM -0300, David Farning wrote:
> >From a tech point of view, the big question have been:
> 4. questions about why touch pad behavior has changed in the latest
> release with out giving teachers a heads up.

I don't know what release they are using, or were using.

I don't know if they mean XO-1.5 or XO-1.

XO-1.5 touchpad behaviour was changed; tap to click was disabled or
enabled.  Default varied by release, and the default should be
configurable.

XO-1 touchpad behaviour was changed.  Latest OLPC release on XO-1 is
10.1.3, which has no touchpad change compared to 10.1.2, so I presume
they were on 8.2.1 or a derivative previously?

Two XO-1 changes may be relevant:

1.  the enabling of automatic power management from 8.2.1 to 10.1.3,
which causes touchpad to be momentarily unresponsive when the laptop is
suspended; this is in the release notes [1], so OLPC did include a heads
up,

2.  the revised kernel driver for XO-1 touchpad [2], which changes the
behaviour somewhat; this is not in the release notes.  It went in with
10.1.1.

Please encourage them to be involved in testing of development builds,
so that they can provide feedback early.

[1]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#XO-1_Automatic_power_management_issues

[2]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes

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James Cameron
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