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[Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/03/10 04:24, Bruno Santos 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.

Or, if you need to run both Win7 and Linux, follow my post here:

http://0xc0dedbad.com/blog/2010/01/30/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-7-on-sony-vaio-z/

Cheers,
Pete

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