> -----Original Message----- > From: sony-vaio-z-series-bounces+jon=network- > [email protected] [mailto:sony-vaio-z-series- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of > Daniel Dechelotte > Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 6:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Status of my VPC Z1: all good except > powermanagement > > Hi, > > I've recently received my VPCZ1 (VPCZ13A7E to be precise). So far, I > only: > * installed a stock 64bits Ubuntu 10.10 > * booted with nomodeset to install Adams' > linux-image-2.6.36-0-vaioz_2.6.36-0.1_amd64.deb > * and that's it. > No special boot options in grub, unmodified BIOS (R3030C3), switch on > stamina position, and that gives me a 1600x900 resolution, wifi, sound, > mic and webcam, all working right away. Powertop reports a power usage > of 13W (with medium luminosity and mostly idle Wifi connection). (I > forgot to mention that Fn-F2 to F6 to control brightness and volume > worked too). So I feel quite spoiled already :) Thanks to everyone > that, > in a way or another, got us that far. > > I do have a problem though with power management. As reported on some > blogs, resuming from suspend-to-ram leaves a black screen, and so far > only plugging an external monitoring and toggling between console and X > could light up the internal panel (playing with xrandr didn't help). I > haven't tried hibernation much, but the last time I tried it seemingly > froze during restoration. > > Unfortunately, the 2.6.37-6 kernel is clearly worse with that regard, > with resuming from suspend that just boots (BIOS logo, then grub) and > hibernation that basically reboots (the computer doesn't even halt, it > just reboots). > > Are there grub options, pm scripts, kernels I should try? Extra > information I should provide? Install uswsusp and then suspend with "pm-suspend --quirk-test --quirk-s3-bios --quirk-s3-mode" and I think that will fix the resume problem. Jon
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