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[Damien R <damienrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 September 2011 10:00, Eva Brucherseifer
<eva.brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my current conclusion is to update the kernel first. According to various people on this list, the Z has the new Intel Sandybridge. This is at least causing the X issues. For example Niklas is using Tumbleweed Suse instead of the normal Suse, so he also has a kernel 3.0.1. I'll give it a try and let you know what it fixes.

I confirm that after upgrading to kernel 3.1-rc4 there is no video
problem. I can change brightness level without installing sony-laptop
and I have kms enable.
Suspend does not work. I have a black screen when I want to resume but
I can change brightness level and I am able to log in the dark (i
tried to restart gdm but the screen stays black) and I  can reboot.
No need for me to use git mesa.

> As for the xserver-org-input-synaptics patches, I spend all weekend with this one. All important parts of these patches are already included into suse. I don't know the status without them, but I have multitouch keyboard working. Tab + Move works correctly to Drag&Drop.
> Only the hardware buttons don't work correctly. The patches make a new setting "TouchPadArea" available which is set to 20%, but somehow it doesn't work. I change the also newly introduced setting AreaBottomEdge, but it only helped a little bit. However, click (hw-button, keeping it pressed) + drag does not work.
>
> Actually I read the patches and the sources, I don't think that Button-Press+Move works for anybody. If so, please let us know. I've read suse, ubuntu and those patches mentioned in the blog article. Archlinux has a different patch. Nicklas has Archlinux and he reported to use the normal tap workaround.
>

The trackpad works like this:
- when I click on the trackpad it does a left click
- when I have a finger on the trackpad and I do a click with another
one finger, it does a right click
- when I have a finger on the trackpad and I put another finger on it,
I can scroll with the first finger

Regards,
Damien R.