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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome stuff, great work Frederik Questier!

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Best site to get Ubuntu working:
> http://questier.com/2010/04/26/ubuntu-10-4-lucid-lynx-on-sony-vaio-vpcz11x9e/
>
> 2010/5/19 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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