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[Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's still initializing the Intel card, my hard switch would work for
you here, but first try creating a specific Xorg config for the nVidia
card - are you using the janitor scripts?

On 31/05/10 14:13, Ben Klausner wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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