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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

	To be honest that sounds more like a corrupt patch file than anything 
else. I'll double check it and let you know...

Adam.


> Just so anyone else with the same model as me knows, I can not get the
> patch to work with my VPCZ1. After a few files getting succesfully patched
> I get
> 
> :patch: **** malformed patch at line 849:
> Which appears in the sony-latop.c section of the patch.
> I believe Norbert may already be addressing this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >        Right, I finally got it to work. They are far from perfect, and
> >        may
> > 
> > be
> > missing drivers etc. for things that I don't have or haven't tried. To be
> > honest though I've rebooted my machine so many times over the last few
> > days that I'm out of time and energy for now to improve them - so if
> > they work, great, but if they don't then beyond basic tweaks you'll have
> > to find another
> > way ;).
> > 
> >        Also, for those that have modded their BIOS or are happy not using
> > 
> > Grub2
> > or have some other solution for getting the Intel/NVidia combination to
> > work,
> > then these probably don't give you anything that you don't already have.
> > If your method involves booting an old kernel first though, you may want
> > the 2.6.28.10 deb since I have inserted a reboot command fairly early in
> > the initialisation of the kernel, saving you a few seconds :).
> > 
> >        The files are at http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/
> >        
> >        Please check out the IMPORTANT_README and make sure that you are
> > 
> > happy
> > before downloading the files!
> > 
> > Adam.
> > 
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