Sony Vaio laptop support

[JeansenVaars]

Hi all,

I would like Linux Mint to beat all other distros, so here are a few indispensable tricks I have to do manually in every distro in order to have my old sony vaio laptop work properly. It be great if LM could do this out of the box for me next time:

BTW, im using XFCE due to resource limitations

• Fix bug in Sony Vaio which causes that keyboard not to work after resume from suspend. Only way out is to force restart, fixes by adding the following to the kernel line:

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  i8042.direct i8042.dumbkbd

  Not sure if it's for all sony vaio, I've got

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  serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

• Manually enable keyboard backlight, by creating a new systemd entry with

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  echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight

• Probably this is XFCE specific but I can't find a way to disable tap to click while typing, got to disable this completely per session:

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  synclient MaxTapTime=0

Thanks
JV

[catweazel]

Are you asking questions or are you making observations?

[Moem]

I think they're making a suggestion: better support for a specific type of old hardware. I don't really think this one's got legs...

[catweazel]

I think they're making a suggestion: better support for a specific type of old hardware. I don't really think this one's got legs...

I couldn't decide if "I can't find a way to disable tap to click while typing, got to disable this completely per session" implied a question or not.