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[Patrick Valdellon <valworx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like a windows issue to me. You have to install the nvidia
drivers from sony. The drivers from nvidia directly or laptopvideo2go
do not work.

br,
    Patrick

2010/1/7 Bruno Santos <bacmsantos@xxxxxxxxx>:
> For some reason that is not the behaviour on this side. I reboot and do
> proper shutdown several times but every I get into windows I receive a low
> resolution screen (800x600) and no light on either in speed or stamina. The
> weird part is that yesterday the first time I got into Windows I had the
> light working but I couldn't switch between Stamina and Speed modes.
> Cheers,
> Bruno
>
>
> 2010/1/7 Patrick Valdellon <valworx@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> As mentioned earlier, you have to boot twice when you switch the OS.
>> So when you were using linux you rebot into windows. Don't log in,
>> just choose reboot from the login screen. The second time around,
>> everthing will be working.
>> br,
>>     Patrick
>>
>> 2010/1/7 Bruno Santos <bacmsantos@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > I wouldn't even have bought this one. But it was the lab were I work
>> > that
>> > bought it for me. I still believe that Sony products are too expensive
>> > for
>> > their value.
>> > And unfortunately the lack of support for Linux and the restricted
>> > policies
>> > in which concern public release of hardware and software information is
>> > not
>> > exclusive from Sony.
>> >
>> > Well anyway, I still have probably a very naive question, but I am not
>> > getting the stamina<->Speed switch working on Windows for some reason.
>> > Do I
>> > need to remove/uncomment the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\
>> > \\"!Windows 2006\\\"" and run update-grub to the switch works in
>> > Windows?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Bruno
>> >
>> >
>> > 2010/1/7 Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> On Do, 07 Jan 2010, Raphael Gradenwitz wrote:
>> >> > Better is, to simply spend no more money for Sony products in
>> >> > future..
>> >>
>> >> 5000% agreed. That was the first and last laptop I bought from Sony,
>> >> and the last product.
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes
>> >>
>> >> Norbert
>> >>
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>> >> Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at,
>> >> debian.org}
>> >> JAIST, Japan            TU Wien, Austria           Debian TeX Task
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