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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I can tell from the doodle, there are two groups of
sony-vaio-z-series models:

(1) sony-vaio-z-series09: models released in early 2009: VGNZ**.
(2) sony-vaio-z-series10: models released in early 2010: VPCZ**,
including the VPCZ11.

The sony-vaio-z-series09 has a good howto, a janitor script and a few
other Linux tweaks, but
the sony-vaio-z-series10 is a different beast, with the BIOS and RAID
peculiarities.

Cheers,

Albert.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Philippe Piatkiewitz
<philippe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree, that a "HOWTO" would be a very nice thing to have.
> But also realize that there are many different Z-series models, with
> different configurations. I have trouble myself distinguishing
> information applicable to my own model.
>
> Philippe
>
> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 10:13 +0200, Aleix Solà 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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