sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think there was an intention to summarize all the information in the
mailing list for the
sony-vaio-z-series10 models (Z11 et al.) and put in a wiki page, but I
haven't heard back
from anyone, so I assume it's not done yet.

I think *many* of the issues have been dealt with in the mailing list,
so reading through the archives should help:

https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/threads.html

Cheers,

Albert.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Zithras <Zithras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just got in a Sony Z series laptop and am trying to install Kubuntu on
> it.
>
> Relevant specs:
> i7 processor
> dual graphics card (Intel/1 GB NVidia)
> 4x 128 GB SSD
>
> The first problem i had was that the system had a RAID0 made out of the
> 4 disks. I broke that down (2 days of effort before I finally figured
> out a solution for THAT one, seeing as how Sony sends no OS install
> discs, only Recovery discs to be used with the drives in RAID), and have
> Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installed and working fine on drive 1. Drives 3-4
> are NTFS formatted to use as storage. Drive 2 is currently unformatted.
>
> I want to dual-boot Kubuntu and install it on drive 2. (and likely use
> it as my main operating system).
>
> I downloaded and burned the Live CD (Intrepid Impala, 10.04), and it
> loads the menu where it asks me to use it as a live OS or install
> Kubuntu, and whenever I try and install Kubuntu (or use it Live, for
> that matter), the screen goes nuts, showing some weird psychedelic color
> pallette and making it basically impossible to see what I am doing.
>
> I have spent the last day googling, and have found various solutions
> concerning graphics switching, black screens, touchpad issues, wifi
> issues, and other annoyances. However, no one seems to have been flat
> out unable to install Ubuntu (Kubuntu in my case). The closest I got to
> my problem was a 'black screen' issue.
>
> If anyone has a similar laptop, or has faced a similar problem (wacky
> colors when trying to install), please could you help me out! I love the
> specs on this laptop (no one else is making 13 inch laptops that are
> nearly this powerful), but will likely return it if I cannot install
> Ubuntu at all. I wasn't sure If I should ask for help in the ubuntu
> forums or the Kubuntu forums, so I posted on both The only other time I
> installed Ubuntu (old Dell laptop, Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn), it went off
> without a hitch, so I'm really hoping this an easy problem that's simply
> showing up due to my inexperience.
>
> Thanks,
> Zithras
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