On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:29 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:06:51 -0400 > >> > >> "Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > I agree 100% with one of his beefs. Laptop touchpad sensitivity. > >> > >> When I'm > >> > >> > typing (and as I touch-type around 50 wpm, the keyboard is really a > >> > >> humming) > >> > >> > often the cursor will jump to where the i-beam for the mouse is; > >> > >> ooops, left > >> > >> > click. But I didn't touch the touchpad. Aggravating as all get > >> > >> out. (And > >> > >> > if someone knows a way to turn that down, please let me know, as > >> > >> I've not run > >> > >> > across the setting yet). > > > >It seems to me that Mossberg has identified a terrific business > >oportunity. Someone for $50-$100 will configure all the things he feels > >currently are obscure to configure. It only has to be configured once > >and then mass copied. > > This complaint has been the order of the day for the synaptics touchpad used > in a lot of lappies. And it is one reason I run a little gizmo called > synaptics that shuts it off, and I use a pluggin wireless mouse instead. > > Fusses about it here, or on the lkml, are either ignored or teased about cuz I > supposedly can't type. > > Of course I can't type when my thumbs must be pulled back against the wrist > and taped in place with several turns of duct tape. That of course makes it > difficult to hit the spacebarsomywordscomeoutalljumbledtogether. Strangely, > I don't have to be near as carefull on those rare occasions when I have it > running XP. > > I've asked politely, and I've asked obnoxiously, the same question: > > When is the touchpad going to be fixed? > > I'm a mostly retired broadcast engineer, the type that makes the high powered > transmitters you watch tv from work. I deal routinely with high voltage > power supplies capable of sucking a megawatt+ from the powerline under fault > conditions. Its pure hell to be composing a long technical message, to > people who just barely understand that turning on a light is done by making > metal to metal contact in the light switch, only to have half of it > highlighted by one misscue of that POS, and erased by the next keystroke > because you don't see it quickly enough when working from and reading notes, > nor can you stop typing that fast. More than one of my messages, or a record > file of what I'm doing has been converted into total gibberish by such > actions in 50 milliseconds. > > Ois what I did when I have to tr it can also cause a switch screens, any way to screw up what you are doing, > it WILL find a way to do it. Seriously folks, the touchpad needs fixed. If > winblow$ can do it, why can't linux? > Another obvious solution is to buy a usb keyboard so your hands will be nowhere near the touch pad. That what I did to use when I need to type long documents. -- ======================================================================= To love is good, love being difficult. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
