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Sony Vaio VGN CS390 Ubuntu 11.04 multiple problems

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I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a Sony Vaio VGN CS390 after I was done dealing with the endless unsolvable problems with windows. The OS looks great and is much faster but with some draw backs. First, The keyboard and touchpad choose when they want to work, if I boot up and one doesn't work, a reboot usually does the trick. If it goes into sleep mode when I close the lid, I lose the keyboard. I have tried editing the grub, they keyboard stays on, but then I lose the touchpad, I edited the grub again to fix the touchpad problem and it did not work. Does any one know of the proper drivers for the touchpad and keyboard? As well the motion eye camera does not work. Last but not least, the lights for caps, num, scroll lock, do not light, nor does the slide bar at the top of the keyboard for the volume light or work! I am new to Ubuntu, and linux in general, any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. PS: Please don't make me go back to windows!!

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#1

*lose not loose* You know how long it takes to edit files in linux with typos?

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Ubuntux❤️ (ubuntuxedo) said : 		#2

Write 'mouse' and run it from the unity menu. Then in the Touchpad tab, toggle the checkbox 'Disable touchpad while typing'.
Back from the sleep mode, if your touchpad is disabled it usually happens. To fix this run this command:
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true

Try to work with these and report the results. Besides what did you change in grub?

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#3

Thank you for your speedy reply, I will try that tonight and report what happened.

I had changed,

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash atkbd.reset"

and

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"

I changed them back to normal because it had seemed to make things worse.

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#4

Update, had the laptop on today, i have it set to "blank screen" on lid close instead of sleep, should I change back to sleep?
Also had the lid closed any how, and when I came back to it, the mouse moved but no buttons, also no keyboard, so i rebooted, ran the conftool as you suggested. I'll update when anything else happens. Thank you.

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#5

Booted up today, no keyboard again, the touchpad moved, but the buttons didn't work, rebooted, froze, hard reboot, booted up, now have keyboard, and touchpad, but the right click only works, no left click. Any suggestions?

Also, after running the config, yesterday, the keyboard gliched out twice, for about 2-3 seconds.

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#6

Ran congf again, but the touch pad became unresponsive after i changed the audio hardware output and the conf. line doesn't work anymore. What is the deal with linux and sony?

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Kris (mrgod84) said : 		#7

Think I found the fix for sony vaio laptops... install windows.

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blueblob11 (blueblob11) said : 		#8

for the trackpad, you can run sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe -a psmouse and it'll fix it, though it's a temporary fix.