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Thanks a lot for your response. Before using the janitor script, I tried to uninstall the old stuff (even the swicth-to-graphics intit.d script) but I may have forgot some things (like removing cpi_osi="!Windows 2006").

I think I will reinstall my ubuntu from scratch to use ext4. By the way, I have a question about that, are you using NTLDR to dual boot? I read somewhere that sony "watermarks" it's hardware so I use NTLDR as workaround (found that in ubuntu-fr wiki, I use NTLDR to boot on vista or grub) but I don't know if it's really necessary.

> does your upgraded karmic use upstart?
I was thinking that was automatically managed by the karlmic upgrade, so no.

Say it again, but thanks for your script, it's really, really precious (I followed every mails of this list and without your script/site[1] I would be afraid to upgrade karmic). You should link your site from the "Sony Vaio Z-series" launchpad welcome page!


Christophe

[1]: I didn't saw anything about symbolink links on libGL libs on the manula installation section your site, is it normal? neither about the switch-x-to and by what magics it is launched? It's not really important cause there's the janitor script (you should talk about this script in first position) but when I tried to rollback it's a little bit hard to guess what the script do.






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De : Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
À : sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Envoyé le : Mar 24 Novembre 2009, 0 h 23 min 41 s
Objet : Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] VGN-Zseries-janitor

Hi Christophe,


Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 21:28 +0000 schrieb
domakmail-ubuntu@xxxxxxxx:
> Thanks to all of you that give so much time to help us... that's my
> turn to have some troubles. 
> 
> Few months ago, I installed sony laptop module and graphic switching
> by following Philip Blanke's guide.
> This week-end I found some time to update from jaunty to karmic. After
> login, X didn't start anymore so I had to do some clean up (restart
> with 2.6.28 kernel, remove xorg.conf files, remove libGL.so.INTEL,
> etc).

You had to remove the old mechanism prior to upgrade.
Then get a standard Karmic installation that runs.
boot twice without
        acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
to get the hardware in a state that both cards are visible.
Then you can run the "VGN-Zseries-janitor" script.

Running the script that creates its own solution on top of an other
solution is not a good idea!

Karmic works with Upstart, older Ubuntu's did not yet.:
   does your upgraded karmic use upstart?

> I reboot and it worked with the last kernel. But when I try to use the
> sony janitor script,

Ooh... Not a good idea. Did you see any warnings about not installed
nvidea?

>  I get some weird messages:
> 
>     checking installed version of "libgl1-mesa-glx":
>      - installed version: "7.6.0-1ubuntu4"
>      - available version: "7.6.0-1ubuntu4"
>        newest version for libgl1-mesa-glx already installed. 
>        No updates available and no downloads required  
> 
>     ascertain if the installed
> "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" (or its target) really is
> the version it should be
>      - found "/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%
> 3a1.6.4-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb" 
>      - installed "/" is from "not installed" 
>        Conclusion for "/": 
>          A new lib from 2009-10-26 18:20 is available. 
>           - installing: 
>              - extracting package in temporary directory 
>           - dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%
> 3a1.6.4-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb\
>             /tmp/xserver-xorg-core.rEwbeP09 ...  done. 
>           - cp -pu /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so\
>             / ... cp: ne peut évaluer
> `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': Aucun fichier ou dossier
> de ce type
> 
>     ascertain if the installed "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" (or its target)
> really is the version it should be
>      - found
> "/var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-glx_7.6.0-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb" 
>      - "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" seems to be a symbolic link... 
>        - searching linktarget for "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" ... done.
>          Target="/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2"
>      - installed "/" is from "not installed" 
>        Conclusion for "/": 
>          A new lib from 2009-10-14 00:17 is available. 
>           - installing: 
>              - extracting package in temporary directory 
>           - dpkg-deb
> -x /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-glx_7.6.0-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb\
>             /tmp/libgl1-mesa-glx.K7SC8zjC ...  done. 
>           - cp -pu /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2\
>             / ...  done. 
> 
>     Thank you for using Raphael's sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor, I'm ready
> now!
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> 
> it seems that there is a problem with libGL* links:
> 
> domak@domakistan-laptop:~$ ll /usr/lib/libGL*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2009-11-22 19:07 /usr/lib/libGLC.so.0 ->
> libGLC.so.0.0.7
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167952 2009-05-03
> 10:24 /usr/lib/libGLC.so.0.0.7

missing nvidia libs!

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2009-11-22 19:10 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.5
> -> libGLEW.so.1.5.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321504 2009-06-06
> 01:25 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.5.1

This, of course, can never work:

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 2009-11-23 21:47 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ->
> libGL.so.1000
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      9 2009-11-23 21:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1000
> -> libGL.so.
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 527256 2009-10-14 00:17 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

delete the link /usr/lib/libGL.so.1000 and reinstall
        libgl1-mesa-glx


> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 2009-11-22 18:56 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 ->
> libGLU.so.1.3.070600
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461488 2009-10-14
> 00:17 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070600
> 
> and 
> domak@domakistan-laptop:~$ ll /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
> total 220
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18824 2009-10-26 18:20 libdbe.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14616 2009-10-26 18:20 libdri2.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43768 2009-10-26 18:20 libdri.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106096 2009-10-26 18:20 libextmod.so

here the same: missing nvidia libs:

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 2009-11-23 21:47 libglx.so ->
> libglx.so.1000
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 2009-11-23 21:46 libglx.so.1000 ->
> libglx.so.

cannot work eather: remove this two files and reinstall:
        xserver-xorg-core

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31232 2009-10-26 18:20 librecord.so
> 
> 
> what can I do/reinstall to come back to something clean? I hope I
> provied all necessary info. I can join some log files but the problem
> seems to located to theses directories.
> If I reinstall xorg and lib mesa with:
> 
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx

Exactly that you should do again after you removed the unused links like
above described.

> 
> intel 3D supports works until next reboot.

Because you did not remove the old mechanisms from your old solution.
Specially any init.d scripts which switch between the different cards.

> 
> I think if I create the link from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1000
> to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2, it will works. But I don't really understand
> why the script had created the link on libGL.so.

That is stuck. Simply remove them all and the reinstallation will fix
that for the beginning to get a clean system.

You should remove the following files as well:

/etc/init/switch-x-to.conf
/etc/init/nvidia-settings.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf* (yes, all of them)

Remove (until you have installed the nvidia driver):

        acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"

from your grub kernel commandline and try to get a basic karmic running
stable.

Then you can run /usr/bin/jockey-gtk, 'activate' the newest available
nvidia driver and run the "VGN-Zseries-janitor" script again (before you
reboot).

>  
> The other problem with the script is that for localized versions of
> ubuntu, it failed to create the links on desktop ('Desktop' directory
> is translated to 'Bureau' in french). I don't know if there's a way to
> find the localized name.

OK. Thank you for that info. I will solve that but first we need you to
get a running system first ;-)

Regards,

Raphael


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