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[Farshad Khoshkhui <farshadkh@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can use "enabling advanced bios menu" trick to be able to use nvidia GPU.
It's a bit risky but works.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/473226-insyde-hacking-new-vaio-z-advanced-menu-bios.html

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Adrian Vielsack
<advielsack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am using the Intel GPU and I can control the Backlight.
> I am using Kernel 2.6.35-rc1.
> rc2 won't even load.
> rc3 just shows a bootscreen.
>
> Everything is working except my nVidia Card and standby.
>
> On 19.06.2010 11:31, Farshad Khoshkhui wrote:
>>
>> Which GPU are you using? Intel or Nvidia?
>> I've tried many methods to make nvidia backlight working(acpi video
>> module on 2.6.34 and 2.6.35rc[2,3], nvidia_bl module with added GT330M
>> id) but none of them works for me. I'm stuck with using
>> nvidia-settings color correction.
>> Intel GPU still panics on every kernel I tried.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Michael Schramm
>> <michael.schramm@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in kubuntu maverici can simply change it with the battery widget.
>>> (running 2.6.35 kernel)
>>> (this doesn't work for the monitor on VGA, haven't tried with hdmi)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Leonid Novitsky<for_leo@xxxxxxxx>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good Day/Night.
>>>>
>>>> Is anybody find the possibility of change the brightness of the screen
>>>> on VAIO VPCZ11?
>>>>
>>>>
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Farshad Khoshkhui