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[Andreas Huck <ahuck@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I recently got a Sony Vaio VPC Z11Z9E/B with a brilliant screen
resolution of 1920x1080 and a RAID-0 of 4 x 64GB SDDs, running 
(K)Ubuntu 9.10rc.

The installation on top of the RAID reveals a installer bug, refer
to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/564771/
for a workaround if you like to use RAID-0 to get 200 MB/s write
and 400MB/s read performance.

I needed to boot an older kernel to get back into speed mode for
the Sony Vaio VPC Z11Z9E/B - thanks for the hint!
The hardware is quite nice but hard-headed. I don't understand why
the Vaio is equiped with a hardware switch, if the hardware does
not really accept its decision.

Stamina mode with intel i915 and nouveau did work fine, except
that dual screen didn't. In speed mode I need nouveau.modset=0
and i915.modeset=0 . I never experienced a green screen.
Kernel is 2.6.32-21-generic.

Regards,
Andreas

On Thuesday, 27 April 2010, Frederik Questier wrote:
> 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-vpcz11x9
>e/
>
> 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
>
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