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[Ben Klausner <klausner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I said in the original post, the janitor script was where I started.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 23:30, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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> 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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