I too have a VAIO E series laptop.
xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sony Vaio Keys id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ USB 2.0 Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
/proc/bus/input/devices has:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000 N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" P: Phys=isa0060/serio2/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input7 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse2 event7 B: EV=7 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103
I'm on Lucid amd64 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Hope this gets fixed soon. This laptop is 3-4 months old and this problem is still bugging me :)
Sound used to be a problem too, but manually compiling latest alsa 1.0.23 fixed it.
I too have a VAIO E series laptop.
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sony Vaio Keys id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB 2.0 Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
/proc/bus/ input/devices has:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000 serio2/ input0 devices/ platform/ i8042/serio2/ input/input7
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/
S: Sysfs=/
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event7
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
I'm on Lucid amd64 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Hope this gets fixed soon. This laptop is 3-4 months old and this problem is still bugging me :)
Sound used to be a problem too, but manually compiling latest alsa 1.0.23 fixed it.