How would I create a custom Xorg config? On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 00:13, Peter Fern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> 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]> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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