In my (short) experience, a non-patched kernel works well. But you definitely have to batch the BIOS and enable static switching.
Best regards, Joël -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity. On Dec 10, 2010 7:01 PM, "Jordi Augé" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the backlit keyboard is totally software-independent, and will work even in a frozen system. > > My system is a wee bit older than yours (vpcz11x9/e), and I didn't get it working alright until I swapped to a hacked kernel ( http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/ ) and hacked the bios to enable static switching behaviour. > > That's my experience, I hope someone else in the list can tell you whether it's possible to get away with a dynamic switching bios and a standard kernel. > > > De: "blackkane" <[email protected]> > A: "Joël Bourquard" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Enviat: Divendres, 10 de Desembre 10el 2010 18:50:36 > Assumpte: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] New Vaio Z13, problems > > > > > > Hi, > > Congratulations for your new Vaio ! :-) > > Sorry I can't answer more (have to go) but here's already some advice for #1: to prevent your touchpad and keyboard from going south in X, either use the i8042.xxxx parameters on the kernel command-line or (it's better) switch to a more recent kernel like 2.6.37-rc3 on which the i8042 problems are automatically worked around. > > > > > > Hi, > I've the same hardware configuration of Wounter and I use kernel-2.6.37-0.rc3.git3.2.fc15 but sometimes my system goes to freeze after login screen (it's very strange because when I type something the keyboard backlit responde...). > Regards, F. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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