sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[kjames <rincewind23@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 09:07 +0200, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> Hi Kev,
>  
> that's strange, I use opensuse 11.4 as well. Maybe I should be more detailed
> about the issues:
>  
> - 3D acceleration/graphics: works well as well over here, fortuntately it is
> only 1 graphics card :-)
> - suspend: the display is completely off after resume, I think the machine is up
> and running though
>   when booting the machine I also had to add the kernel option "nomodeset" as
> the same happened in this case
>   what did you do to make suspend work?
Worked out of the box for me - I don't have any special kernel options
set
>  
> - keyboard backlight, wifi, network, rfkill switch, works as well
> - touchpad: The buttons are part of the touch area, therefore it is called a
> "clickpad". The driver needs to honor these buttons. Do you use tapping to
> click? Over here multitouch works fine and I can use it more or less. However,
> right click using the button and Click+drag doesn't work.

Two-fingered right click works for me (although it took me three weeks
before a Mac-using friend of mine pointed out how to right click!)

Click+drag works but is a pain in the butt to use.

>  I started looking into
> the synaptics driver. Spending a full weekend I found out the following: the
> official synaptics driver (up to 1.5.0) doesn't care about clickpads at all.
> Distributions have various sets of patch sets which at least enable multitouch
> features. However, they don't enable the buttons for me and I didn't find
> confirmation anybody has solved the click&drag yet.
> - how about mic and brightness?

Just tested the mic using Skype - all working perfectly.
Brightness adjustment with FN-F6 and FN-F6 is working.


As a full disclaimer, I am running the Tumbleweed version of openSuSE
11.4 (rolling updates) - see http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

However, all this was working with a stock 11.4 (with normal updates). I
have not tried installing the sony-laptop module mentioned on this
mailing list, as everything seems to be working without it. I'm not sure
I need it..

Cheers,
KEv.


>  
> Cheers,
> Eva
>  
>  
> 
> Kev James <rincewind23@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 4. September 2011 um 21:23 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > OpenSuSE 11.4 is working very well on my VPCZ2 - full 3d acceleration,
> > suspend/resume, touchpad, keyboard backlight, wifi etc.
> > Boots in about 5 seconds.
> > Cheers,
> > KEv.
> > On Sep 4, 2011 7:04 PM, "Eva Brucherseifer" <Eva.Brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:Eva.Brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx] > wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > anyone out there who already had his hands on the new VPCZ2? 
> > >
> > > As my old Z was stolen I had to get a new one... so far things are not that
> > > bad,
> > > major issues are:
> > > - clickpad not fully functional (keys don't work properly)
> > > - brightness cannot be changed
> > > - X broken after suspend (display all black)
> > > - mic doesn't work (well, like we know that one)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Eva
> > >
> > >
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