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[Peter Kis <md2z34@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Raphael,

thanks for the quick help. I assume I will be able to acomplish this
procedure by myself, but please confirm one more thing.

When my vaio boots up the very first splash screen is a VAIO logo in white
with black background. Usually you can enter to the system bios here. In my
case this logo is invisible in speed mode instead I can see blincking
screen turning white into back and finally it remains black.

By the way the computer boots up normally (with black screen) and I can shut
it down by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del. The installation of init.d script for
switching xorg libs really solves this problem? Since the system is very far
from using xorg at this point.

Regards

Peter

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Raphael Gradenwitz <
raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Peter,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 17.11.2009, 22:09 +0100 schrieb Peter Kis:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Raphael Gradenwitz
> > <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         Am Dienstag, den 17.11.2009, 20:16 +0100 schrieb Peter Kis:
> >         > I have same problem like Michal:
> >         >
> >         > > 2. kernel module 0.9np4 does not work at SPEED mode ...
> >         monitor
> >         > > blinking and system freezing during start up  (Z41XD
> >         model)
> >         >
> >         > but I am using opensuse rather than ubuntu. So your sript
> >         will not
> >         > work on my system. Could you explain me how can I solve this
> >         issue
> >         > without using the clean up script?
> >
> >
> >         Excuse me but my crystal ball does not show me what you have
> >         done on
> >         your system.
> >
> > I have done only basic things such as
> > 1) I have installed the sony-laptop-zseries-np4 kernel module for my
> > 2.6.31 kernel
> > 2) cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sony-laptop.conf
> >  options sony-laptop speed_stamina=3
> > 3) I have added the kernel parameter acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
> >
> > The result is that the Intel card works fine and the stamina/speed LED
> > started to work, but when I boot in speed mode the screen is blinking
> > etc.
> >
> >
> >         It does not even show me If your system uses upstart or
> >         sysv-rc.
> >
> > Now you should make the crystal ball work because I cannot answer your
> > question:-( How could I decide whether the system uses "upstat" or
> > "sysv-rc"?
>
> you use sysvrc: http://en.opensuse.org/Upstart-howto
>
> You must write an init.d script which does the detection like I do in
> the /etc/init/switch-x-to.conf and the linking of the right open-GL
> libraries and xorg.conf files as I do with the switch-x-to script.
>
> Here is a tutorial from Philipp Blanke from this mailing list:
>
> http://www.gdv.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/download/Installation-sony-vaio.pdf
> he uses a init.d script to switch.
>
> Together with my scripts you should be able to write your own solution,
> (assuming that you speak shellscript).
>
> Or uninstall the suse museum and switch to a modern linux like ubuntu..
> (SCNR) ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Raphael
>
>
>
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