Hello, I recently upgraded my vaio z505 je from sarge to etch. Worked mostly flawless. One thing I noticed was the the mouse tapping was very sensitive, which was annoying.
After digging somewhat in google, I found that the Sony has an ALPS mouse topsi:~# cat /proc/bus/input/devices [...] I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000 N: Name="PS/2 Mouse" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2 H: Handlers=event2 ts0 mouse0 B: EV=7 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321 N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3 H: Handlers=event3 ts1 mouse1 B: EV=f B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 B: ABS=1000003 topsi:~# and I should used the synaptics input driver in xorg I added a new input device to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "SMouse" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" # Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" # Option "BottomEdge" "4200" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" # Option "Finger" "25 30" # Option "FingerHigh" "30" # Option "FingerLow" "25" # Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" # Option "LeftEdge" "1700" # Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12" # Option "MaxTapMove" "220" # Option "MaxTapTime" "180" # Option "ClickTime" "100" # Option "MinSpeed" "0.06" # Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad" # Option "RightEdge" "5300" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option "TopEdge" "1700" # Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection which replaced the old configured PS2 mouse Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection in the ServerLayout Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" # InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "SMouse" EndSection Now I have a mouse which stops working after approximately 30 seconds of usage. /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows (**) Generic Keyboard: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" (**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc102" (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc102" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406) (--) SMouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3" (**) Option "SHMConfig" "on" (--) SMouse touchpad found (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/psaux" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SMouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) SMouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3" (--) SMouse touchpad found Any hints where to dig deeper are welcome.... Many thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]