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[Nooshin Eghbal <nooshin.eghbal88@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
I have sony vaio VGN-Z540 with vista business edition and ubuntu 8.10
karmic.
My graphic is intel and NVIDIA 9300M GS. I run janitor script too and just
like Giulio in stamina mode anything is OK, but in speed mode after reboot,
the led is on but I entered in tty1 instead of starting X :(
plz help me! I really need to install inivia driver for installing CUDA.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Bruno Santos <bacmsantos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Giulio,
>
> I am afraid to report that is a known problem. The Sony-Z5 is shipped with
> windows 7, and because of that it uses a BIOS (and associated ACPI tables) that
> doesn't work with the nVidia card under Linux.
> If you only use Linux on the laptop you can simply flash the BIOS to a
> previous version. BIOS 4040M3 is (currently) the latest working for linux,
> 4043M3 is the oldest version working for win7.
>
> All the best,
> Bruno
>
> 2010/3/1 Giulio <giulio.sciarra@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dear all,
>> I am new of this team and indeed not so expert in linux (I have just
>> installed Ubuntu 9.10). I have a VGN-Z5 vaio and tried to manage the
>> cold switch stamina/speed via janitor script.
>> The stamina side of the switch works correctly, at booting the stamina
>> led is on and ubuntu starts correctly.
>> >From the speed side, on the other hand, at booting the led is on but
>> after grub loading a series vertical stripes appear and no x starts. It
>> seems that it is not able to recognize nvidia.
>> What do you think about this behavior?
>>
>> Giulio
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