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["Patrick Wagner" <pat.w@xxxxxx>]

"Der Eva sei ein trulala..."

I tested sony-laptop-zseries-0.3 and 0.4 on my VGN-Z11WN with Ubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27-11-generic).

(path for module: /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/kernel/drivers/misc)

Stamina-Mode works great. Power consumption came down to 13,5W!
(800Mhz-Mode, powertop, slightly dimmed backlight)
This means approximately 4h battery life.

I tried to get the Nvidia working, but without success.
On boot only the Stamina-LED switches on.

greets,
Patrick

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:38 +0100
> Von: Eva Brucherseifer <eva.brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> An: sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] First step in switching graphics cards:	Running Stamina mode only

> 
> Update:
> I uploaded a source tar ball so that compilation & installation is easier.
> See the web page and the README for details.
> 
> Any progress with the Nvidia tests?
> 
> Cheers,
> Eva
> 
> Am Sa Februar 14 2009 01:13:59 schrieb Eva Brucherseifer:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just uploaded a new version of sony_laptop.c to
> > http://www.basyskom.org/~eva/log_installation_vaio_z21vnx.html
> > It allows to run linux in full Stamina mode without Windows XP mode :-)
> >
> > Using this version of sony_laptop resets also all possible settings from
> a
> > Windows XP reboot, thus it won't be able to run linux in speed mode with
> > this version. Certainly replacing the module by its original version
> brings
> > back the original behaviour.
> >
> > Unfortunately the PCI system doesn't really recognize the change and
> still
> > shows the 00:02.0 Intel graphics controller and the 01:00.0 Nvidia
> graphics
> > controller, but not the 00:02.1 Intel card. So if you use scripts to
> switch
> > your X.org config, this will break.
> >
> > We haven't tested the same with Speed mode, as my laptop hasn't the
> Nvidia
> > card configured and we cannot say wether the Nvidia card is fully
> > initialised. If you are brave, you might give it a try and let us
> know...
> > For that you need to change line 2933 from sony_dgpu_off() to
> > sony_dgpu_on() and also the led switch two lines above.
> >
> > For more info see also http://thinkfat.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Have fun,
> > Eva
> 
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