Hi eric, two questions: 1) Does it work with grub1? 2) At which screen resolution are you working?
2010/8/17, Eric Lacombe <[email protected]>: > Hi Adam, > > I just wanted to thank you for your involvement, and also to give positive > feedback on my Sony Vaio Z11Z9E. > > I've just merge your patch sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7-v3.patch, and I can > attest that the Nvidia card is powered off when I use the Intel internal GPU > : > powertop gives good power consumption numbers, and the Xorg log only show > the > Intel GPU (instead of the 2 GPU that were shown before). > > About my config : I currently run under a 2.6.35.2 (with Kubuntu distrib) > with > grub 1 (dual boot with Win 7) and use only the Intel GPU under Linux. > Also, raid 0 is working without the need to use grub2 (it seems to be a > problem shown on this list?). > About suspend to RAM, it works great when I issue sudo "pm-suspend" after > doing some tricks at resume (see below), but through KDE interfaces it keeps > going wrong without an inconvenient trick. > If someone have an idea? I give more information on the residual problem > below. > > Regards, > > Eric > > > Suspend to RAM information (tested only with Intel GPU) : > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > (See also the thread "[Sony-vaio-z-series] VPCZ11Z9E - screen does not light > up on resume" for directly related information) > > The suspend operation works well with the VPCZ11Z9E (I checked 2.6.33 > through > 2.6.35 under Kubuntu distrib). But resuming does not light up the screen > without some tricks. > > 1. First trick (not satisfactory) : > ------------------------------------------------ > > When resume step seems complete, plug an auxiliary monitor (does not need to > be powered...) through the VGA connector, and the laptop screen light up > immediately. > > 2. Second trick : > ------------------------- > > Basically put these line at the end of your resuming scripts: > xrandr --output DP3 --off > xrandr --output DP3 --auto > > With pm-utils go there : /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/ > > Create a script with a name like : 01sony-vaio (don't forget chmod > +x). And put stuff like this : > > #!/bin/sh > # light up laptop screen for vaio VPCZ11Z9E > > . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}" > > resume_lapscreen() > { > /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --off > /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --auto > } > > case "$1" in > thaw|resume) resume_lapscreen ;; > *) exit 0 ;; > esac > > > *WARNING* This is sufficient when you only directly issue the pm-suspend > command, but if you request suspend through KDE means, it does not work (and > you need to go on with the first trick). See below for more information. > > Information took from precedent emails I sent on- and off-list: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > #I delved deeper and I find that KDE use HAL scripts, and for suspend it is > : > # > #/usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux > # > # And that script executes pm-suspend... > #I then compared the pm-suspend.log issued first when I type "sudo > pm-suspend" > #(and all works well) and then through KDE features (where my monitor does > not > #light up). > # > #The logs are the same except that my script containing the two commands > with > #xrandr produces "Can't open display" twice, when I suspend through KDE > #features... Don't know why :/ > > After some discussion with Bernd Edler (off list), I created this script : > > /usr/sbin/specific-resume-commands : > > #!/bin/sh > > > export DISPLAYUSER=`ps --no-heading -o user -C kdeinit4` > /usr/bin/xauth add `sudo -u $DISPLAYUSER -s /usr/bin/xauth list :0.0` > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --off > /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --auto > > > and call it through my pm-utils script (01sony-vaio) via sudo -s. > Here 01sony-vaio updated : > > #!/bin/sh > # light up laptop screen for vaio VPCZ11Z9E > > . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}" > > case "$1" in > thaw|resume) sudo -s /usr/sbin/specific-resume-commands ;; > *) exit 0 ;; > esac > > > But my pm-suspend.log shows these lines when I suspend from KDE means : > > ... > /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01sony-vaio resume suspend:/usr/bin/xauth: > timeout > in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > /usr/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority > /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: bad "add" command line > No protocol specified > Can't open display :0.0 > No protocol specified > Can't open display :0.0 > Returned exit code 1. > ... > > And "resume from RAM" still works great when I directly type sudo pm- > suspend... (and the pm-suspend.log is ok) > > > This is the end of the story for the moment. I didn't try anything else > since > then. > > > Le samedi 31 juillet 2010 17:10:54 Adam Hill, vous avez écrit : >> Right, I finally got it to work. They are far from perfect, and may be >> missing drivers etc. for things that I don't have or haven't tried. To be >> honest though I've rebooted my machine so many times over the last few >> days >> that I'm out of time and energy for now to improve them - so if they work, >> great, but if they don't then beyond basic tweaks you'll have to find >> another way ;). >> >> Also, for those that have modded their BIOS or are happy not using Grub2 >> or have some other solution for getting the Intel/NVidia combination to >> work, then these probably don't give you anything that you don't already >> have. If your method involves booting an old kernel first though, you may >> want the 2.6.28.10 deb since I have inserted a reboot command fairly early >> in the initialisation of the kernel, saving you a few seconds :). >> >> The files are at http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/ >> >> Please check out the IMPORTANT_README and make sure that you are happy >> before downloading the files! >> >> Adam. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Enviat des del meu dispositiu mòbil *Aleix Solà.* _______________________________________________ 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
