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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

	Yup, totally useless patch file :(. I've re-uploaded it ( and tested it 
this time :(. )

	Norbert - give me 5 mins and I'll put a patch just against your sony-
laptop.c too. I'm assuming that it will work with older Zs only because I 
*believe* that they both use DGPU for the NVidia card and the _DSM method for 
that calls the Intel _DSM. My better half actually has an old Z, so if I can 
find a USB hard drive I'll test it. If it doesn't work, then all that is 
needed is something to determine which is correct, which would be simple 
enough.

	It might also be useful to check the AC adapter state if the 
speed/stamina switch is in auto ( only on the later Zs. ) Again, should be 
simple enough and if I get time I'll update it again in the next couple of 
days.

Adam.


On Saturday 31 July 2010 17:01:01 andagom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Thanks for all the effort you've put into this.
> 
> 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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