Mouse pad jumpy and rebounding when wet?

[MitchellNCharity]

616 q2c28 B4. I was out in the cool humid mist/drizzle all afternoon today, and the mouse cursor was jumpy and rebounding as I have come to expect in those conditions.

See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2804#comment:34 for further details.

This ticket is an alternate classification of #2804. That ticket classifies it as Component 'x window system', and Milestone 'First Deployment, V1.0'.

If the problem is instead, as I have always assumed, a hardware issue, then that classification could be most unfortunate, hiding the problem until after MP. So I create this ticket.

[jg]

Capacitive touchpads really don't like water. Doesn't matter if they are Alps, or synaptics. Just try wetting your finter sometime....

Inherent in the beasts...

[MitchellNCharity]

That leaves me unclear on how to proceed. #2804 is an open ticket, and a reoccuring problem, but some things which look exactly like #2804 are inherently expected.

Perhaps a note could be added to #2804, describing under what conditions an occurance should be considered a bug instance?

For example, I right now have the 'jump on touch' failure mode. Everything is dry, but it's cold and moderately humid (50F, 62%), and my finger has a bit of salami grease. I now have no idea whether this is an instance of #2804, or a known characteristic of the touchpad. If there was a note, which didn't mention grease or temperature, and had say a 80% humidity threshold, it would be clear how to classify the event, and I could decide whether to debug this instance.

[gregorio]

Milestone Never Assigned deleted