Fabrizio at what resolution are you working, I'm using 1600x900 and cannot get Intel working. It seems screen switches off and doesn't turn on. Also I listen welcome sound when X starts, but I cannot see anything.
Aleix. 2010/8/6 Fabrizio Giustina <[email protected]> > wow, it really worked! :) > > applied your patches to the 2.6.35-14 ubuntu kernel, compiled for > 32bit, followed you instructions and now I am able to sent you this > mail from working VPCZ with the intel card enabled :) > a lot tricky, at startup the monitor turned on and off a couple of > times but at some point a working gdm popped out... > > if anybody could need them I could post the kernel debs (Adam, maybe I > could send them to you to upload together with the existing ones?) > > Another interesting finding, looks like that adding all the following > kernel parameters in grub conf (not only the .nopnp) also fixed my > keyboard, maybe you may be interested: > i8042.nopnp i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop > > thanks > fabrizio > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Adam Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 6 August 2010 10:54, Fabrizio Giustina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > I didn't even try the BIOS mod because I still want to run > >> > Windows ( > >> > Visual Pinball is brilliant :) > >> > >> > >> mh, I never thought that enabling the static switch could break > >> windows... it shouldn't, also because you can get back to the soft > >> switch at any time by changing the bios option, isn't it? > >> > > Ahhh, no, it doesn't "break" Windows as such, I just don't want to have > to > > change BIOS settings every time and also want dynamic switching to still > > work in Windows. I'm just lazy :). > > > > > >> > >> Thanks also for the info about the reboot patch, I'll try it soon... > >> Another related question, I am pretty new to this soft-switch mess and > >> I didn't really understood a point: do you have any idea on which kind > >> of magic is bundled in old kernels to makes the switch work? Did > >> anybody ever tried in finding it and see if the code can be merged to > >> a newer kernel? > > > > I haven't seen any, no. I think that people are assuming that Sony put > > something in the BIOS to detect when an OS not capable of switching using > > ACPI calls and go to static switch mode. Now Linux has more advanced ACPI > > stuff, I think that the trick fails, so selecting some ACPI boot option > may > > work, but may make something else not work as well. The change seems to > have > > happened some time around 2.6.29/30, you may find someone who had found > the > > exact version and hence find the commit which caused it. > > > > Adam. > > > > > >> > >> thanks > >> fabrizio > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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