[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

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?

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
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