Well my last boot was with the arguments: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”i915.modeset=1″
which I don't think is what you want. The previous boot was with no args for that variable. The file for that is too big to append to a list, so I've put a copy here <http://www.frijoles.net/Xorg.0.log.old.gz> temporarily. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 20:49, Peter Fern <[email protected]> wrote: > What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say? > > On 31/05/10 13:21, Ben Klausner wrote: > > It's a VGN-Z530N, which was one of the earliest Z series. I've run W7 on > it, but don't know if it is officially W7 supporting. > > That said, my problem is not what you describe in the blog post. I get a > readable display, but can't start X. > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:34, Peter Fern <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you have a Win7 supporting BIOS, that doesn't work any more... is this >> a VPC, or VGN? For VGNs, you can read my post here: >> >> >> http://0xc0dedbad.com/blog/2010/01/30/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-7-on-sony-vaio-z/ >> >> >> On 31/05/10 05:47, Ben Klausner wrote: >> >> Running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Z530N. Ran the janitor script, which seemed to >> be successful. Made sure that /etc/default/grub had the line: >> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\\\"!Windows 2006\\\"" >> >> Rebooted a couple of times, and noticed that the boot messages came up in >> a much smaller font than before, presumably because the screen was at a >> higher res setting. >> >> But instead of the login splash, I get an error "can't open display", and >> get dumped to the command line! Put GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX back the way it was, >> rebooted twice (why does it take two boots?), and got back where I was, with >> graphics, but locked in STAMINA mode. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > >
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