First I would like to thank Adam and the list: following his howto and with some extra help from the mailing list archives, I managed to get my z12 (i5, 1600x1200) working with the intel card by using Adam's kernel and the i915 module provided in his test directory (without it I get a blank screen).
Everything is working great (with intel at least, which is all I care about at the moment), except that I noticed my battery life is really not great. Powertop indicated 20+W consumption, and the main issue was that CONFIG_NO_HZ was not set. I compiled Adam's kernel (vanilla 2.6.35-rc6+vaioz patch) with this option, but (unsurprisingly) the ``improved'' i915.ko no longer loads. I thought of applying the extra patch (test-colour-mod-2.6.35-rc6-vaioz.patch), but it did not apply cleanly (and ignoring the issue and compiling the kernel anyway did not solve the blank screen problem). Is there some extra step I am missing in trying to produce an working kernel? Artur _______________________________________________ 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
