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[thunderbee <thunderbee@xxxxxxxxx>]

I first installed 9.10 when I got the laptop; and today, I did a full
reinstall (not an upgrade) of 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
I used the notes I had from the previous install to speed things up. This
time however, I tried to write down everything I did. It should help
newcomers start easily.
I don't believe I achieved anything new, it's a compendium of everything I
found on many different sites and posts.

Here is the complete install (I haven't found a complete walkthrough yet),
from scratch (should even work on a brand new machine). It will take you to
a working 1920x1080, nvidia accelaterated desktop. Sound works, trackpad
works, including tap, drag'n'drop & side-scroll. Sound works, including mic.
Suspend doesn't work (nvidia stays off), nor brightness control.

For reference, this is a EU VPC Z1:

dmidecode -s system-product-name
VPCZ11C5E
dmidecode -s bios-version
R1180C3



#
# Notes
# . keyboard / trackpad sometimes freeze at bootup. Do a hard reset...
# . after every login, do a "sudo -s"
# . when screen goes to sleep you may need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-F7 to
get the display back
#

#
# Preparation, for new laptop
#
Boot windows, update bios
Boot windows, resize windows partition

#
# install
#
Boot USB 10.04 LTS
install
reboot
#
# first boot
#
Select "2.6.32 recovery", hit 'e'
After ro single" add "nomodeset i8042.nopnp"
Ctrl-x
In recovery menu => "netroot"
apt-get update
apt-get install openssh-server dkms
#
# Can be copy-pasted in ssh now
#
Edit /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2006\" nomodeset i8042.nopnp"

#
# install recent kernel, oldest kernel
#
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.31-10-rt
wget -nd
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
wget -nd
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb
wget -nd
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb
linux-headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb

#
# reboot on new kernel, recovery mode
#
reboot
Boot 2.6.34, recovery mode
In recovery menu => "netroot"
/etc/init.d/ssh restart

#
# install & config sony-laptop
#
wget -nd
http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7.tar.gz
cd /usr/src
tar xvzf ~/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7.tar.gz
dkms add -m sony-laptop-zseries -v 0.9np7
dkms build -m sony-laptop-zseries -v 0.9np7
dkms install -m sony-laptop-zseries -v 0.9np7
echo "options sony-laptop speed_stamina=3" >
/etc/modprobe.d/sony-laptop.conf

#
# install nvidia driver
#
add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install nvidia-current
# get the xorg.conf file on the laptop, I got it from my 9.10 backup
cp /mnt/etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/
reboot

#
# Stardard boot for speed mode
#
Boot 2.6.31, recovery mode
Ctrl-Alt-Del at menu
"Speed" is on at reboot
Boot 2.6.34

# It works!



Here is the xorg.conf I used. Note that it tries to load a custom EDID (from
my previous install), but everything seems to work without the file (I
forgot to copy it to the fresh install, and still, it works).



# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@palmer)  Sun Feb  1 20:21:04 UTC
2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "v4l"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    ##Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    #Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: builtin, VertRefresh source: builtin
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DFP-2"
    #HorizSync       28.0 - 55.0
    #VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    #Option         "DPMS"
    DisplaySize 290 160
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: builtin, VertRefresh source: builtin
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "CRT-0"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 55.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GT 330M"
    Option         "NoLogo"     "True"
    Option  "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-2,CRT-0"
    Option  "CustomEDID" "DFP-2:/etc/X11/EDID.bin"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1920x1080 +0+0, DFP: 1920x1080 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode    0666
EndSection