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Re: Damn Small Linux kernel working stamina switch

 

Hi Matthias,
I have Vaio VGN-Z590C. First, boot into DSL, it boots much faster than
windows, then, after restart, the settings preserved. By the way, DSL
(kernel 2.4) lspci in both modes shows either only nvidia or only intel
card.
Aliaksei

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Matthias Welwarsky <matze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Aliaksei,
>
> what sony vaio have you tried this with and can you describe the procedure
> to
> switch between stamina and speed?
>
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 20:14:06 Aliaksei Stratsilatau wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Recently I've tried booting from USB flash disk with DamnSmallLinux
> (DSL),
> > created by UNetbootin utility ( http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net ) The
> > stamina/speed switch worked very well, even the visibility of NVidia and
> > Intel cards changed, even after power off and reboot. Some other strange
> > things also happens during power-off-on and reset. This DSL distribution
> > have kernel version 2.4..
> > At least, it's booting much faster than WinXP to switch to NVidia mode
> and
> > dont require partitioning, installation etc. Maybe investigation of this
> > issue may help.
> > Aliaksei
>
>
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