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    Vaio S + Linux + Touchpad not working

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by marsamb, Aug 25, 2010.

  1. marsamb

    marsamb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi All,

    My issue is that I installed Linux (openSuse) on my new S Vaio and the touchpad does not work at all. The problem could be related to linux drivers for synaptics but I am not sure. The kernel ver is: 2.6.34-12-desktop. Where can I find linux drivers for Vaio S? Thanks all in advance.

    /Sambiase
     
    marsamb, Aug 25, 2010
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    TofuTurkey Married a Champagne Mango

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    Is the Synaptics driver already installed? I'm not sure if OpenSuse uses apt-get or yum, but this thread uses the package manager to get the driver: Synaptics Multi-Touch
     
    TofuTurkey, Aug 25, 2010
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    Primes Notebook Deity

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    This helped the same issue on my Z series.

    Code: 
    touchpad now working by appending "i8042.nopnp" to the boot options
     
    shurcooL, Aug 26, 2010
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    marsamb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks,

    It did work for me too adding i80482.nopnp to /boot/grub/menu.lst. Now I am trying to get brightness to work. The FN keys do not work for brightness. Any hints?

    /Sambiase
     
    marsamb, Aug 26, 2010
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