Hi Francesco, using the Z31 with Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 I never have to boot Windows before booting into Ubuntu. Using the patched sony_laptop kernel module and stamina mode I get about 4 hours on battery with WIFI an bluetiooth switched on.
I never used the NVIDIA card yet and don't have the driver installed. Hope that helps Mike 2009/3/21 Francesco Vacondio <vacon...@gmail.com>: > Hi everyone, > > first of all, thank you all for the work you're doing. > > I am very interested in buying a Z690, and my preferred distro since a > couple of years is Ubuntu. I have been reading the mailing list for a > while now, but I'd like to ask the following questions to any of you > using Ubuntu and the Z: > * Can you use *only one* graphic card without booting into Win? > Switching is not very important to me (but not booting Win is). > * What is (roughly) your battery life time? > * How do the fans behave? (on most of the time? noisy?) > > Thank you again, > > Francesco > > -- > _________________________________________________ > Francesco Vacondio > Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering > Université Laval > 2375, rue de la Terrasse > Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 > tel: +1 (418) 656-2131 ext. 16313 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp