With regard to the problems you detail, I certainly have the first and
third. :)
Makes window moves or resizes difficult as well.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miles Nordin" <carton@Ivy.NET>
To: <port-hpcmips@mail.netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 10:00 PM
Subject: MobilePro pointer problems


> w.r.t. X11 on the MobilePro 800 (MC-R700A), does anyone else have problems
> with the touchscreen?  I have three:
>
>   o touch pen to screen.  hold down.  The pointer will dance rapidly
>     around the pen contact point.  The magnitude of the drift is larger
>     than a letter-glyph, which makes selecting text practically
impossible.
>
>   o The pointer often becomes confused whether it's pressed down or not.
>     sometimes I release the pointer from the screen, but X thinks Button1
>     is still pressed.  thus, i cannot type because the wm still has focus.
>
>   o pointer-jumping.  sometimes, when I release the pen from the screen,
>     the pointer will jump away from the point where I released the pen.
>     the jump occurs with Button1 pressed, so not only does this interfere
>     with focus-follows-mouse, but with more ordinary drag operations as
>     well.
>
> It is, infuriating.  at first I was gentle with my screen, and refused
> to let my friends draw on it with their fingernails.  Now, I think it
> is a miracle that I haven't cracked the ``glass.''
>
> does anyone know of an hpc* model with this 800x600 screen and a
> correct pointer?
>
>