Font display ea

[Γιάννης Παπαδόπουλος]

Hi,
I have installed last week Kubuntu Dapper in my Sony-Vaio VGN-FS215S and 
upgraded packages two days ago.
1. Touchpad is recognized  but cursors speed is really slow and can not  
be fixed. Tapping is not supported. Both worked fine under Breezy.
2. Changing the aliasing preferences doesn't have any effect. The same 
file with the same Times New Roman Font in Open Office under windows XP 
is clear and in Kubuntu slanted and faint. Some characters half appear.
3. I don't know which is the appropriate choice for keyboard. There is 
none for Sony Vaio. I tried to use all the other brand keyboards for 
Laptop but to no avail.
4. Winmodem is not recognized but I guess I have to buy linuxant  driver.
5. Wireless card is recognized but I have to install Ndis Wrapper.
6. Adept doesn't function 9 out of 10 times but this is a general 
problem as I realized from the talk in the Forum and I managed to solve 
it through "sudo adept".

Strange though it may seem the most important for me is the font issue 
since my system without clear font display is unusable.
I would be grateful for any advice

Thanks
Yannis