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[Nooshin Eghbal <nooshin.eghbal88@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry I have a mistake in past e-mail, I have Ubuntu 9.10.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Nooshin Eghbal
<nooshin.eghbal88@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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