Hi Shai, I think I got a similar "lovely machine". Product name on the machine is VPCZ13C5E, customized recently at sony online and the hardware is like that on VPCZ139E/X.
I set it up as described here: http://www.adhocism.net/2010/11/installing-ubuntu-10-10-on-sony-vaio-vpc-z13m9eb Two things I did differently: - I disabled the nouveau nvidia driver by installing nvidia using synaptic first - I got the latest nvidia driver directly from nvidia downloads. To sum it up: - Ubuntu 10.10 + Win7 running (dual boot) - Using Adam's kernel and upstart script - I'm using an external monitor on the docking station's DVI port as main: Too bad this requires the nvidia card :-( and thus - I need to start the 2.6.28.10 reboot-kernel prior to starting 2.6.37.6 - Suspend/hibernate does not yet work (I think I saw a post concerning this, but have not yet managed to try) so I simply set gnome to only switch of the screen when I close the labtop One last thing: In order to deal with switching on/off the external monitor (i.e. when I want to take the machine from the docking station) I'm using disper: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/disper To switch to labtop only: "disper -S" To switch to external-main/labtop: "disper -d auto -e -t left" Only flaw is the need to boot two kernels to start ubuntu... but I learned to accept that. Andi Am Donnerstag, den 23.12.2010, 21:08 -0800 schrieb [email protected]: > Hi all, > > I recently got a lovely machine -- the Vaio VPCZ1390x (a customized Z series > machine). It turned out to be an ubuntu disaster: > > The installer can't even run properly - once it tries to start X the screen > blanks and that's it; hard (power-button) reboot only; no magic SysRq. Same > thing happens with Adam's kernel, except the speed/stamina LED comes on with > a mode matching the switch setting. > > The only X windows driver I managed to get to work is the vesa "failsafe" at > 1280x1024; the native resolution is 1900x1080. Both the Intel and the Nvidia > drivers fail to start, reporting no available screens. I got the LCD EDID > downloaded from windows and tried to inject it via the xorg.conf -- no > banana. An external screen doesn't work either. > > Audio isn't working. Both the nVidia and the Intel chips report an audio > driver. Windows claims to use a RealTek which Linux doesn't seem to find. > > Any ideas on how to make this machine's audio and video work? > > Thanks, > --Shai > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Andreas Wittmann Lindenstraße 6 61440 Oberursel +49 177 4618913 _______________________________________________ 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
