[iPAQ] Re: Touchscreen very erratic

I'm posting to this list in the hopes that perhaps someone on this list
can offer a suggestion or verify the problem.

Mikael, sorry if you get this twice, but I wasn't sure if you were on this
list also.

Mikael Bouillot said:
>> I'm not sure if this is an Opie issue or deeper in the touchscreen
>> driver, or maybe it's hardware. I'm running Familiar 0.7pre-8 and the
>> latest from Opie unstable on an iPAQ 3650.
>
> I have a very similar issue with my iPaq 3760, and I'm pretty sure
> it's hardware related. Of course, that makes my post to the opie list
> completely off-topic, but I didn't know where else to reply.
>
>
>> The best way to describe it is that in Drawpad, I try to draw a
>> straight line from top to bottom and end up with a jagged line with
>> very large jumps to the left. Sometimes it seems to drift left and
>> other times the line looks like a crazy ekg. It seems worse on the
>> right side of the screen. Towards the right 2/3 of the screen it
>> almost acts normally.
>
> Mine does something like that, but with vertical jumps (when holding
> the PDA in portrait mode). When the "bug" kicks in, a horizontal line I
> try to draw looks like avery jagged seismic graph, and I have a very
> hard time pushing any button in the interface. It works fine most of the
> time, but the malfunction happens usually when I plug the CF sleeve. The
> only way to get it to work again is to gently slap the iPaq flat on the
> thigh until whatever has gotten loose in it falls back in place :-)
> Hence the "hardware related" guess of mine, unless we have an
> acceleration sensor in the iPaq I don't know about :-)
>

I verified that it is MUCH worse with the CF sleeve plugged in.

>
>> I've got no scratches that I can see on the screen and I haven't
>> dropped it or anything, so I'm really at a loss. It is fast becoming
>> unusable. I hope someone has some ideas. My wife would kill me if I
>> had to get another iPAQ ;-)
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think anything short of sending the iPaq back
> for repair will do :-( But hey, it's good excuse to buy a Zaurus C700
> :-P
>

Your right, good excuse, but it probably won't fly with my wife. She just
doesn't understand my technology needs 8-D

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