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[Eva Brucherseifer <eva.brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kev,


On Mo September 5 2011 15:49:08 kjames wrote:
> 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!)

same here

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

you mean, yoy tap first and than you drag? The  mouse behaviour doing hw-
button press (keeping it pressed) and than dragging doesn't work for anybody 
else. 

Sorry for insisting. I am of course hoping for a myrical solution you have :-)

> 
> >  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

I've upgraded to Tumbleweed kernel 3.0.1, but it didn't help with the video 
issue. Which kernel are you running?


> 
> 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..

You mean a downloaded version of 11.4? And everything worked? This is contrary 
to my own experience as well as what others report about old kernels. But 
maybe also I misunderstood you.

And you really running this on the brand new VPCZ2 model?

Best,
Eva

> 
> 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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