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[Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies, my other comments stand though...

On 31/05/10 16:57, Ben Klausner wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>>     <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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