sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Stefan Meisner Larsen <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, current status for me is, that NVidia drivers 195.36.15 works for me.
The janitor script from Norbert Preining doesn't know my VPCZ11Z9E, and
aborts. I tried to hack the script to run anyway, and got the updated
sony-laptop module installed
Unfortunately that did not bring me any further. I am still missing
wireless, 3G, touchpad and switching between INTEL and NVidia graphics.

If anyone out there has had better luck that me on the issues above , I
would be glad to know.

And any hints are greatly appreciated ;-)

Cheers,
Stefan Meisner Larsen


2010/3/31 <ravenskrag@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hello there,
>
> I'll do my best to handle this one so the senior members don't have to
> address this again.
>
> I assume you have a new vaio z, in which case you might want to search
> the mailing list for information on those who have the newer BIOS and
> using the NVidia card.  Last I heard, it still doesn't work properly
> with the newer BIOS.  As such, please do not install the NVidia
> drivers.  Well, the nouveau drivers might work, but I'll get to that
> later.
>
> I believe the vaio module that exists on your machine is the one that
> ships with ubuntu, which I believe is part of the kernel or something
> like that.  That doesn't really matter.  The point is, it doesn't work
> right.  Use the new vaio module instead.  I believe you will need the
> new one edited by Norbert Preining.  It can be found at this site.
> http://global-social.net/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=3
>
> That site actually has more useful information on it than the
> launchpad site, imo.  Speaking of which, let me take a brief
> intermission here to address whoever it is who maintains the page.
> Can you please edit it to contain the most useful, relevant
> information, or at least a link to the cite mentioned above? I believe
> that would drastically decrease questions like these.  As to Stefan
> Larsen, I am not saying that your question is stupid, just that
> similar questions have been asked before and it would be nice to have
> the information easily accessible.
>
> Anyway, back to the point.  Also, I apologize for the length of this
> email.  Now, the janitor script will take care of a lot of things for
> you, but I would stop before it gets to the part with installing the
> NVidia drivers, because, as I said before, I do not believe the
> drivers work with the newer BIOS.  The janitor script can also be
> found at the above link.  The nouveau drivers, I believe, work with
> the new BIOS, but they only have 2D support right now, as far as I
> know.  Also, I do not know if the janitor script will allow the
> installation of those drivers.  In addition, I think you need to use
> Ubuntu Lucid to use those drivers.
>
> I hope this has been helpful for you, and I hope it was not too long.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jason
>



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