Re: Sarge on Sony Vaio (now english ;-) )

[Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com>]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 20:34, Wolfgang Egger wrote:
> Servus,
>
> sorry, that I didn't recognize, that this is an english list.
> So try again in english:
>
> Yesterday, after years using Suse-Linuy, i have installed sarge on my
> Sony Vaio Laptop. Beside some trouble with the installing procedure, I'm
> pretty happy with it.
>
> Are ther any infos about the differences between suse and sarge, mainly
> about things like acpi/powersave or the synaptic touchpad etc. ?
>
> Currently I have two problems:
> 1) My synaptics touchpad doesm't "klick" if I tap on it. I had the same
> problem using Suse the first time some years ago, but I forgot how to
> solve it.

For the synaptics, you need to install a package. I already did it for my Dell 
laptop, I will copy and paste here what I have on my website about it.

www.celifornia.com/documents/dell700m.html

Out of the box, your Touchpad will work, but not correctly. For example, you 
cannot click with the TAP, etc. And not only that. This new Synaptics 
technology lets you scroll with the touchpad, if you tap once on the right 
side, keep your TAP pushed in (dont release) and pull your finger up-down. 
The same you can do with a bottom TAP and pulling finger left-right. This 
will equal to the browser's BACK and NEXT buttons. Great feature once you get 
used to it.

Here is how its done:

apt-get install xfree86-driver-synaptics

Once that is done, you need to modify your XF86Config-4 file in two places. I 
will just copy mine, and you can figure out what was changed. Pretty easy:

# Add this section where it belongs:

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver        "synaptics"
        Identifier    "Mouse[1]"
        Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option        "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option        "LeftEdge"      "1700"
        Option        "RightEdge"     "5300"
        Option        "TopEdge"       "1700"
        Option        "BottomEdge"    "4200"
        Option        "FingerLow"     "25"
        Option        "FingerHigh"    "30"
        Option        "MaxTapTime"    "180"
        Option        "MaxTapMove"    "220"
        Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option        "MinSpeed"      "0.06"
        Option        "MaxSpeed"      "0.12"
        Option        "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
#       Option        "SHMConfig"     "on"
#       Option        "Repeater"      "/dev/ps2mouse"

# Modify this end section like follows:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
#       InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
EndSection


As I am sure you can see, now the default mouse is Mouse[1], and Mouse[1] is 
the synaptics mouse. Restart X and voila, you have a smart touchpad.


Ben


>
> 2) I want to configure acpi respectivly the powersavedeamon. Using Suse
> there was a little icon at the menu, but now there isn't any more.
>
> Thanx in advance for any help
>
>     Wolfgang