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[Ben Klausner <klausner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

nvidia-xconfig is only supported for dapper and hardy. Is there something
more current replacing it?

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 00:32, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Back up the file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then use nvidia-xconfig to
> generate a new one.  If that works, we can look at automating the switching
> for you.  If not, replace the generated file with your backup, and please
> post the output of `lspci -v` when booted in speed mode.
>
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> On 31/05/10 17:28, Ben Klausner wrote:
>
> How would I create a custom Xorg config?
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 00:13, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  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> 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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