Re: Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

[charlie <aries-tao@bigpond.com>]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:28:20 +0100
Norton used the keyboard to craft this:

  >|> The 2.6.xx kernels work with the touchpad, but
  >|> certainly not allow it to tap, no matter what way I write the
  >|> XF86config-4 file.
  >|
  >|what do you mean? how do you "click" on it? I got a 1355LC, 15"
screen
  >|size, running sarge and I can tap. I just had to install the
synaptics
  >|package and put this in XF86Config:
  >|
  >|Section "Module"
  >|	...
  >|        Load    "synaptics"
  >|
  >|...
  >|
  >|Section "InputDevice"
  >|        Identifier      "Touchpad"
  >|        Driver          "synaptics"
  >|        Option          "AlwaysCore"
  >|        Option          "CorePointer"
  >|        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
  >|        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
  >|        Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
  >|        Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.0010"
  >|        Option          "RightEdge"             "5400"
  >|        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "180"
  >|        Option          "TopEdge"               "1900"
  >|        Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
  >|        Option          "FingerLow"             "25"
  >|        Option          "LeftEdge"              "1900"
  >|        Option          "MaxTapMove"            "220"
  >|        Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.02"
  >|        Option          "FingerHigh"            "30"
  >|        Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.18"
  >|        Option          "BottomEdge"            "4000"
  >|        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
  >|EndSection
  >|
  >|...
  >|
  >|Section "ServerLayout"
  >|	...
  >|        InputDevice     "Touchpad"
  >|
  >|
  >|
  >|Norton
  >|

I tried a lot of configurations and naturally have synaptics installed.

I will give it another go with what you have sent and thank you.

But everything I tried failed. The pad worked a treat, but it was button
stuff only. No tap, I'll see how I go with what you written.

Thanks again,
Charlie


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