Hi, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Aleix Solà <[email protected]> wrote: > Fabrizio at what resolution are you working, I'm using 1600x900 and cannot > get Intel working.
My Z has a 1920x1080 screen, as I said I see a couple of on/off/on/off before gdm actually starts but with the patch provided by adam it seems that at the end it always work. fabrizio > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
