Sony Vaio touchpad fix on Open Suse Linux

Posted by Colonel Patch on March 22, 2011

How to fix non functioning alps touchpad on a Sony Vaio F12

open terminal

type su

enter password

type cd /boot/grub

type gedit  menu.lst

amend line=>
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9500420AS_5VJ7Z1Q4-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9500420AS_5VJ7Z1Q4-part10 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317

to=>
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9500420AS_5VJ7Z1Q4-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9500420AS_5VJ7Z1Q4-part10 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317 i8042.nopnp

save file

exit terminal

reboot

Note: above line may not be exactly the same. The important bit is to put ' i8042.nopnp' at the end of it!

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