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[Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody, I tried Adam's kernel and when I boot I get a Kernel Panic,
anybody with same problem?


2010/8/1 Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>

> On Sa, 31 Jul 2010, Adam Hill wrote:
> > 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
>
> Well, it does NOT!
>
> Compiling a module with your changes and trying to load it on my laptop Z11
> I see:
>
> [ 1089.454603] sony-laptop: acpi_callreadfunc failed
> [ 1089.454609] \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.DGPU._DSM failed: 5, func 3, para, 2.
> [ 1089.454612] \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.DGPU._DSM failed: 5, func 2, para, 17.
>
> It seems that this path does not exist.
>
> > 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.
>
> So you mean checking if the one runs and if that does not work try the
> other one?
>
> Do you know git?
>
> Why don't we open a branch in my sony-laptop-zseries git repository
> where we can try to make this work?
>
> I have created a branch on my git repository now, please if you want to
> register at gitorious.org and send me your login so I will add you to
> the sony-laptop-zseries git project and you can play around in the
> devel branch!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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