Ubuntu on AMD based Sony Vaio VPCY B15AG

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Published on 2011-03-20T18:59:49Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 19:29 UTC
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Last week I bought a AMD E350 (AMD Fusion platform) based Sony VAIO (VPCYB15AG) having AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics, I removed Windows that came along with and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (AMD64) using USB drive.

During installation my touchpad was not working, I managed through keyboard, but after completing installation & restarting the machine still there was no touchpad support. Also there's no proper graphic card drivers. Even I tried connecting the USB mouse to it but the left key is not working and had to configure the mouse as left-hand to get the left click enabled.

I tried searching for any possible solutions for these but found nothing helpful, is there any hope? What should I do to enable
i) enable touch pad support
ii) get higher resolution 1366x768, etc?

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