Apologies, my other comments stand though... On 31/05/10 16:57, Ben Klausner wrote: > As I said in the original post, the janitor script was where I started. > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 23:30, Peter Fern <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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