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[Farshad Khoshkhui <farshadkh@xxxxxxxxx>]

I applied patches, but I still get the panics when Xorg starts with
intel card. Second patch didn't compile without applying
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/93556/. Did you do anything else to
make it work?

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Xavier Hallade <xh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for your howto on how to get rid of these reboot.
>
> For me (VPCZ11 1600x900), intel graphics works fine with 2.6.34 kernel from
> kernel.org and the patches you can found here :
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220
>
> Le 03/06/2010 12:46, Farshad Khoshkhui a écrit :
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Zithras <Zithras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I was out of town last week, so didn't get a chance to send in an update
> until today.
>
> Following thunderbee's recent invaluable guide, I was able to get
> Kubuntu 10.4 installed on the VPCZ1190X.
>
> As expected, I have to boot an older kernel each time to get the speed
> switch set, and I used the xorg.conf file at the end of the document
> (works great!)
>
> A couple points of note (quite obvious to most linux users, but still
> useful toward the intended goal of creating a guide for the 'new' linux
> user:
>
> for the commands:
> wget -nd http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid
> /linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
> wget -nd http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid
> /linux-headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb
> wget -nd http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid
> /linux-headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
> dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb linux-
> headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb linux-
> headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb
>
> in the guide, replace all instances of 'i386' with your processor
> architecture ('amd64' for mine, and I think most new Z series laptops,
> or any 64 bit processor)
>
> if you are sshing into the computer to install Kubuntu as recommended,
> remember that you'll have to login as the main system account (not root
> like in the recovery console), and use 'sudo' before most commands.
> Remember to either make a strong password or disable ssh password
> authentication after you're done installing Kubuntu and have a GUI.
>
> if you need to copy/paste the xorg.conf file from the guide (i.e. you
> don't have one from a previous install), you'll also need to get a
> commandline text editor - vim works:
> copy file text, then in terminal (minus the 's)
> 'sudo apt-get install vim'
> 'sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf'
> 'i' #enter text insert mode
> #(paste text)
> 'esc' #back to command mode
> ':wq' #save and quit
>
> I now have Kubuntu working fine with the nVidia card!
>
> And a couple of questions I still have:
> 1) Other than the graphics card quirks, what's still not working (almost
> nothing is still broken, as far as I can tell; not sure if the
> fingerprint reader and webcam are working yet though?)
>
> 2) What's the best way to get the Kubuntu to see the 'fake' RAID?  (Do I
> just need to install the dmraid package?)  I can see the drives Windows
> and Kubuntu are installed on just fine (they're not in RAID), but I
> RAIDed the other two drives together for storage, and I can't see them
> in Kubuntu yet.  I don't need to boot from them (which seems to be the
> major problem with the fake raid), but it would be nice to be able to
> use them for file storage once Kubuntu is booted and running
>
> 3) any solution on the hardware graphics switch for the new Z series?
> (not really, as far as I can tell)
>
> 4) Has anyone gotten the Intel graphics adapter working on the new Z
> series models yet (I'm REALLY confused on this one.  Reading through the
> email archives, it looks like there's a possible bugfix out there, but
> I'm not really sure how to install and use it, if it works at all (or
> mostly, but with a few problems), or if it even applies to this computer
> model (the bug report mentions it fixing 'blurry' or 'incorrect' colors,
> rather than the black screen most of us are running into for the intel
> graphics)
>
> Thanks to everyone on the forums who's helped out, especially thunderbee
> and Frederick!
> I'll start installing programs, configuring, tweaking, and testing
> tomorrow!
>
>
> Just to share my experience, After few hours of struggle I just
> installed ubuntu lucid on my Z11PGX. Here's what I've done
>
> 1- Raid: I've disabled on-board intel raid-0. Installed windows on
> first ssd, and installed linux with mdraid-0 on two other ssds. I
> created the raid using mdadm before installing desktop lucid. The
> trick was /dev/mdX device should have a filesystem in order to appear
> in partman.
> Fakeraid should work, but it didn't really worth the hassle.
>
> 2- Video: booting into an old kernel each time was un-acceptable, so I
> went for enabling bios advanced options.
> It's a bit risky, but worked for me
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/473226-insyde-hacking-new-vaio-z-advanced-menu-bios.html
> After you enable advanced option, you can set the policy to static,
> that resembles the way "Sony Vaio SZ" used to handle graphic cards. It
> will be decided on boot.
> Intel driver still panics when Xorg starts, but nvidia with nvidia
> drivers works fine.
>
> 3- Touchpad: adding i8042.nopnp to kernel parameters did the trick for me
> too.
>
>
>
>



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Farshad Khoshkhui