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[Eva Brucherseifer <eva.brucherseifer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Julius,

Am Sat February 14 2009 23:59:10 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Eva, Hi all
>
> i tested your sony-laptop.c and the stamina mode is fine as far as i can
> see. It should extend battery life considerably, if I understand correctly.
> I tried changing the code to switch the nvidia card on, but it didn't
> work and im not a kernel hacker ...

I just uploaded a new version 0.5 which allows you to switch the card through 
sysfs without the need of kernel hacking or loading new modules.

> Also i wasnt able to switch on the 3G modem. I got a permission denied
> error, even though i was root.
> any idea ?

Very strange... when did you get the permissions denied? When calling this 
line?
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/snc_wwanpower

Cheers,
Eva



>
> Julius
>
> Eva Brucherseifer schrieb:
> > 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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