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[Frederik Questier <frederik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have Ubuntu 10.4 nicely running on Sony Vaio VPC Z11X9E
with nvidia driver @ 1600x900.
I've never seen the green console, but I've seen the pink colors,
IIRC on Linux distributions older than Ubuntu 10.4

See my installation story at
http://questier.com/2010/04/26/ubuntu-10-4-lucid-lynx-on-sony-vaio-vpcz11x9e/

On Tuesday 27 April 2010 17:31:26 Xavier Hallade wrote:
> I can't get rid of the green console with intel too, I'm using the
> nvidia card for now. (with brightness always at 100% because it's
> handeld by the intel driver).
> There is several bug reports for this issue that came from the intel
> driver like this one :
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220 but I don't see
> much news :/
> 
> 2010/4/27 Sebastian Daehne <daehne@xxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> >> I have now, and it does work.  I wonder how.
> >>
> >> To recap, with Arch I just installed the LTS (i.e. older) version
> >> of the kernel, added it to GRUB, then rebooted into it; made sure
> >> the switch was set appropriately (Stamina in my case) even though
> >> none of the card switch lights was lit; then rebooted from the
> >> console (X didn't come up with the older kernel) and picked the
> >> "modern" kernel with KMS-based Intel video driver instead.
> >>
> >> When it came up, the nVidia card was absent from lspci and power
> >> consumption at idle (but with all wireless etc switched on) was
> >> down to about 16 watts from 25 or 26 previously.
> >
> > Currently I'm just experiencing the same problems Xaviar did (using
> > grub-legacy boots
> > the system but the console-font is somewhat green and x looks like
> > weird)
> >
> > I've tried using kernel 2.6.34-rc5 with Chris's kernel-config but
> > no luck so far.
> > Now I've just installed archlinux (it was debian before) using the
> > 2010-04 installer, but
> > same problem as before.
> >
> > Xaviar: how exactly did you manage to get rid of the green console
> > font and could you please
> > send me your kernel-config?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Sebastian