Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Brouard Nicolas <>]

Hi all,

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Sergei's message (sent under a different email than his subscribed
email) diffusion was delayed because I was abroad.

Basic kernels of Mandriva Linux 2005 did not include latest 2.6.11-rc1
Alps patch and thus double tapping does not work.
I have had a lot of discussion on the inclusion of this patch with
Mandrake but in vain. Next kernel will include the patch.
But xfree.xpm recognizes the Alps touchpad and should be correctly
parameterized now. 

You can get Alps/patched Mandriva Linux kernel on
http://sauvy.ined.fr/sony/rpm, for example
kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.11.6.6nb2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 

You can also use qsynaptics to tune the Alps pad (and set double
tapping).

The remaining problem is that if you plug another mouse, XFdrake is not
able to set a correct xorg.conf with both mouses Alps and USB for
example. So you have to copy your "multipurpose" xorg.conf and launch
X11 again.

Nicolas
Le vendredi 20 mai 2005 à 11:38 +0100, Sergei Zuyev a écrit :
> Hi, guys,
> Maybe this info would be of help to those of you who just installed 
> Mandriva 
> 2005 LE. I spent a lot of time trying to adjust MaxTapTime for synaptics 
> touchpad present in vaio Z1. I discovered that after each 
> boot synaptics section in /etx/X11/xorg.conf gets rewritten with default 
> values, in particular, my setting
> Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
> gets overwritten with 
> Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
> 
> The reason is that the default options are hardcoded in
> /usr/lib/libDrakX/Xconfig/xfree.pm
> so you need to change this file instead. I hope this is just a temporary 
> hack 
> from Mandrake and soon we'll return to a canonical way of changing 
> xorg.conf...
> Cheers,
> Sergei
> 
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