It's still initializing the Intel card, my hard switch would work for you here, but first try creating a specific Xorg config for the nVidia card - are you using the janitor scripts?
On 31/05/10 14:13, Ben Klausner wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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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