List, Aleix, First, congrats, you might be one of the few out there to have a vpcz13 working.
Just to clarify and assert, does "it's working" mean you have the *nvidia*card working with 3d following Adam's howto as pointed by Jérôme's previous email? Thank you for your time erick On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Aleix Solà <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi it is now working! > - Adam's kernel 2.6.36.0 > - Installed sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7 > - Grub load options: "i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop > acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2006\" acpi_backlight=vendor" > > Thank you every body! > > *Aleix Solà.* > > > > 2010/10/25 r1k0 <[email protected]> > > List, Jérôme, >> >> Thanks Jérôme for the quick reply. >> >> I'd like to make sure I understood you correctly. >> by >> ( no 3d acceleration sadly) >> >> Do you mean for intel or nvidia or both? >> >> Because in this case, Sébastien has 3d acceleration on intel and you say >> that Adam's solution might get 3d acceleration for nvidia which would mean >> that some people have 3d on intel and some other people have it on nvidia >> which is really good indeed (means in a near future one could hope to have >> both or nvidia). >> >> Did I understand you correctly or am I overinterpreting? >> >> Thanks for the input, >> >> Regards, >> >> erick >> >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Jérôme @ Diniho <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> erick, Sebastien, >>> >>> look at Adam solution here : >>> https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg01400.html >>> >>> It's work well for the Nvidia, and with Intel too ( no 3d acceleration >>> sadly). I hvae a Z12, so I think that it will work with the Z13 too >>> >>> Jérôme >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, r1k0 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> List, Sébastien, >>>> >>>> Thank you for the feedback. >>>> >>>> Facing issues with the nvidia GPUs is actually what I was fearing the >>>> most. I guess Sony will never provide any bios update to let the user >>>> disable the intel card. >>>> >>>> If only I could use the nvidia GPU would still make my day (I don't >>>> really care about the Intel card, as I bought the device for everything but >>>> that optimus crap). >>>> >>>> Luckily, I bought the device 2 days ago, so I still have 10 days to >>>> fiddle around otherwise I'm just going to bring it back and get a 2KE >>>> ticket. Sadly, all other devices are not really attractive compared to the >>>> vpcz13. I guess I'll wait until a vpcz13 alike goes out *without* the >>>> dualGPU-optimus-crap-of-the-year. >>>> I'll just erase the bootloader and bring it back passing my self for >>>> someone who don't know anything in computers: that's the best I get my >>>> "revenge" against sony for this locked-down device. >>>> >>>> If I find anything worth (which I really doubt) I drop a mail here. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> erick >>>> >>>> ps: out of curiosty, I could even open up the laptop and just "push the >>>> right button" to make the intel hardware not recognized anymore but I'm >>>> sure >>>> it's not that simple. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Sébastien Roy >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2010-10-25 03:08, r1k0 wrote: >>>>> > Hi List, >>>>> > >>>>> > I recently took possession of a vaio vpcz13m9e and I was wondering if >>>>> I >>>>> > could hope succeeding in having the nvidia/intel GPUs to work using >>>>> the >>>>> > feedback from this ML because I see people have vpcz11 and 12 mostly >>>>> and >>>>> > googling around shows very few (if not none) linux users having this >>>>> > device (vpcz13). >>>>> > I use Gentoo and I got the system up and running using vesa so far. >>>>> >>>>> I own a VPCZ1390S (canadian model). >>>>> >>>>> It seems impossible to solve the gpu switching problem. First, the >>>>> firmware (version R3030C3 in my case) can't be patched to make the >>>>> "advancde menu" appear. The EFI booting trick (see >>>>> >>>>> http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/2009/07/enable-vt-on-insydeh2o-based-sony-vaio.html >>>>> ) does not work at all. >>>>> >>>>> As far as the other trick (acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"), it does not seem >>>>> to work at all either. It seems the VPCZ13* are not intended to run >>>>> vista, so the bios probably does not care about "vista frienfly" gpu >>>>> switching. >>>>> >>>>> Basically, I am out of options now for gpu switching. >>>>> >>>>> For a basic install, all is well (at least better than vesa): >>>>> - Use the 10.10 installer >>>>> - on the first reboot, modify the grub lines so that >>>>> - linux -> linux16 >>>>> - initrd -> inird16 >>>>> - quiet splash -> i8042.reset i8024.nomux i8024.noloop >>>>> i8042.nopnp >>>>> - after first boot, update the /etc/default/grub and >>>>> /etc/grub.d/10_linux (and then update-grub) to make the previous grub >>>>> changes permanent. >>>>> - Install the latest sony-laptop-zseries from >>>>> http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/ >>>>> >>>>> Intel graphics work fine, including 3D acceleration. If only I could >>>>> switch off the nvidia card to save power. I did not succeed there. >>>>> >>>>> If anyone manage to get access to the nvidia card on these machines, >>>>> I'm >>>>> very interested... :-) >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Sebastien >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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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