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[Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have a Win7 supporting BIOS, that doesn't work any more... is
this a VPC, or VGN?  For VGNs, you can read my post here:

http://0xc0dedbad.com/blog/2010/01/30/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-7-on-sony-vaio-z/

On 31/05/10 05:47, Ben Klausner wrote:
> Running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Z530N. Ran the janitor script, which seemed
> to be successful. Made sure that /etc/default/grub had the line:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\\\"!Windows 2006\\\""
>
> Rebooted a couple of times, and noticed that the boot messages came up
> in a much smaller font than before, presumably because the screen was
> at a higher res setting.
>
> But instead of the login splash, I get an error "can't open display",
> and get dumped to the command line! Put GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX back the
> way it was, rebooted twice (why does it take two boots?), and got back
> where I was, with graphics, but locked in STAMINA mode.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
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