Could you elaborate on this a bit "and for that they need exactly the acpi settings which we do not want for the Linux to solve that" ? Is there some discussion or forum on the topic? I found that after switching the mode all I have to do is force a rescan on the primary pci bus to get the second card to show up. The problem is that the other card is still there so power savings go out the door.I haven't played with X server yet to see if a restart would pick up the new card.
----- Original Message ---- From: Raphael Gradenwitz <raph...@gradenwitz.ath.cx> To: sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Sat, October 31, 2009 12:07:15 PM Subject: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Ubuntu 9.10 For Dummies Tutorial? Hi Andreas, Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 16:32 +0100 schrieb Andreas Ohrvall: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 13:46 +0100, Raphael Gradenwitz wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Andreas Ohrvall: > > > I am not sure if I miss something, but I have been through the archive > > > without finding a solution. > > > > What exactly do you want to solve? > > Get the switch between Intel and nvidia to work properly. I had it > working fine in windows 7 64bit, however, after trying to get dual boot > with newest ubuntu to work properly things have become quite strange. > > - When booting with the switch set to Stamina, everything works fine, > both windows and ubuntu But, in Windows it does not work anymore to > switch to speed. > - When first running linux in stamina, switching to speed and rebooting, > the only thing I get is a rainbow changing colors slowly. This is before > the InsydeFlash-Vaio Bios screen is shown (Or maybe I should say > instead). So, for now I dont think it has anything to do with the > xorg-config. I assume it has something to do with the ACPI and the > kernel commandline. Yes. That is because the Windows Versions > XP (Vista, Windows 7) can change between the modes without need to reboot the machine. See this interview with Jun Otsuka, Keiichi Nakayama and Hiroshi Kawada (the brains after this feature) from Sony: http://vaio-online.sony.com/prod_info/series1/z/interview_Z/index_05.html and for that they need exactly the acpi settings which we do not want for the Linux to solve that. I (and not only me) am looking for a solution to do it the same way on Linux like it already is done on the newer windows. It needs some more good ideas and maybe some reverse engeneering.. ;-) Until that issue is solved, you have to boot windows twice to get it work without reboot (crazy, yes I know) > > > > > > > > New Ubuntu 9.10 does not ship with any xorg.conf. > > > > That is right. The new X server doesn't need an xorg.conf file anymore > > rather gathering the devices with dbus. It may be (still) installed > > after an upgrade from Jaunty. You can build your own though if you need > > or want to add something like those accelerations from my tutorial > > > > > It would be great if > > > you could post your complete xorg.conf, instead of just the changes in > > > the blog. > > > > But I DID post my complete xorg.conf. [1] > > > > The file is located in > > > > /etc/X11/ > > > > the complete path is > > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > The lines after (quote) > > "Here my xorg.conf for the intel graphics-chipset:" > > > > There is nothing more than that, believe me! > > > > [1]: > > http://global-social.net/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=3#intel_xorg.conf > > > > > > For the nvidia driver an xorg.conf file is needed (AFAIK) an will be > > installed by the package 'nvidia-glx-xxx' (where 'xxx' is the installed > > nvidia driver-version, eg. 185). That package comes with the binary > > "/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig" and will automaticaly install an xorg.conf for > > your purpose when installing it with the jockey script. > > But since nvidia uses an xorg.conf, it is important to at least remove > > that nvidia xorg.conf while booting with intel graphics. The further > > scripts in my tutorial will do that for you. > > Ok. Thanks for explaining. To me the xorg.conf on your blog seemed way > too short, but it works just fine. Fine! Regards, Raphael _______________________________________________ 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