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[Ben Klausner <klausner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well my last boot was with the arguments:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”i915.modeset=1″

which I don't think is what you want. The previous boot was with no args for
that variable. The file for that is too big to append to a list, so I've put
a copy here <http://www.frijoles.net/Xorg.0.log.old.gz> temporarily.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 20:49, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?
>
> On 31/05/10 13:21, Ben Klausner wrote:
>
> It's a VGN-Z530N, which was one of the earliest Z series. I've run W7 on
> it, but don't know if it is officially W7 supporting.
>
> That said, my problem is not what you describe in the blog post. I get a
> readable display, but can't start X.
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:34, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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