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[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kaspar@xxxxxxx>]

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Hi

Chris Down <feyd2blak@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi Alexandre
>
> I hope you don't mind me e-mailing you out of the blue, I got your    
> e-mail address from the Launchpad forum.
>
> I was wondering if you would mind helping me?......

I'll try since I know it's important to get help for such a problem
and I would really like to get one.

> I have a vaio z and am running Fedora 10, Fedora 11 in twenty, odd,   
>  days time.....when it comes out....
>
> I read you were able to get the proprietary nvidia driver to work on  
>   your fed 10 install....
>
> Is it possible you could help me do the same. I have found I can't    
> install Eva's sony-laptop.c version 0.8 or 0.9....did you install    
> these to get the 9300 going?

No. I tried to install it, but it didn't work. I got some error :
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE/build  
SUBDIRS=/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9  
modules
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire «  
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE »
  CC [M]   
/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.o
/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.c: In  
function ?sony_nc_add?:
/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.c:1475: erreur: implicit declaration of function  
?acpi_video_backlight_support?
make[2]: ***  
[/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.o]  
Erreur 1
make[1]: ***  
[_module_/home/xion/Documents/hardware/sonyz/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9]  
Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire «  
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE »
make: *** [default] Erreur 2

> If not, how did you get it working?, I have broken X so many times    
> now and reinstalled Fedora multiple times, all with no luck....

I didn't use kmod-nvidia or some rpm package like that.
I used the nvidia installer as .run from nvidia.com website.
In fact, what is strange is that I firstly used the 9300 driver which  
worked out-of-the-box. Then I heard it wasn't the good one and tried  
the one for notebooks : use Driver Download, Geforce type, 9M Series,  
Linux 32bits OS and EN (us) language.

Then, I just run the installer being root and finally the  
nvidia-setting script to get a xorg.conf file.

Now, that's sadly not enough to get a nvidia card working. You must  
get your switch with a working LED on SPEED mode. If it's not the  
case, you can't get your card working.
To get it, I have two different solutions :
- using a boot on XP and then reboot on linux
- using DSL Linux (same thing, boot, reboot)

And then, I use the option acpi=ht on kernel to get the acpi not  
uninitializing the switch at reboot.

That's all.

> Please help......; ), look forward to hearing from you...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> PS Bernd sent me a copy of his xorg.conf-nvidia which he had working  
>   so I will try that in the mean time....

Ok, here is mine too, but it's a generic xorg file for nvidia :
# xorg.conf-nvidia
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     # generated from default
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "ch"
	Option	    "XkbVariant" "fr"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1360x768"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 48.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

#
# xorg.conf-nvidia EOF

Hum... did you get the LED on ?
Are you using the kmod-nvidia package instead of the nvidia.com driver ?


Hoping you'll find a solution, have a nice week
Alexandre Kaspar

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