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[Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fabrizio at what resolution are you working, I'm using 1600x900 and cannot
get Intel working.
It seems screen switches off and doesn't turn on. Also I listen welcome
sound when X starts, but I cannot see anything.

Aleix.


2010/8/6 Fabrizio Giustina <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx>

> wow, it really worked! :)
>
> applied your patches to the 2.6.35-14 ubuntu kernel, compiled for
> 32bit, followed you instructions and now I am able to sent you this
> mail from working VPCZ with the intel card enabled :)
> a lot tricky, at startup the monitor turned on and off a couple of
> times but at some point a working gdm popped out...
>
> if anybody could need them I could post the kernel debs (Adam, maybe I
> could send them to you to upload together with the existing ones?)
>
> Another interesting finding, looks like that adding all the following
> kernel parameters in grub conf (not only the .nopnp) also fixed my
> keyboard, maybe you may be interested:
> i8042.nopnp i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop
>
> thanks
> fabrizio
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6 August 2010 10:54, Fabrizio Giustina <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >        I didn't even try the BIOS mod because I still want to run
> >> > Windows (
> >> > Visual Pinball is brilliant :)
> >>
> >>
> >> mh, I never thought that enabling the static switch could break
> >> windows... it shouldn't, also because you can get back to the soft
> >> switch at any time by changing the bios option, isn't it?
> >>
> > Ahhh, no, it doesn't "break" Windows as such, I just don't want to have
> to
> > change BIOS settings every time and also want dynamic switching to still
> > work in Windows. I'm just lazy :).
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks also for the info about the reboot patch, I'll try it soon...
> >> Another related question, I am pretty new to this soft-switch mess and
> >> I didn't really understood a point: do you have any idea on which kind
> >> of magic is bundled in old kernels to makes the switch work? Did
> >> anybody ever tried in finding it and see if the code can be merged to
> >> a newer kernel?
> >
> > I haven't seen any, no. I think that people are assuming that Sony put
> > something in the BIOS to detect when an OS not capable of switching using
> > ACPI calls and go to static switch mode. Now Linux has more advanced ACPI
> > stuff, I think that the trick fails, so selecting some ACPI boot option
> may
> > work, but may make something else not work as well. The change seems to
> have
> > happened some time around 2.6.29/30, you may find someone who had found
> the
> > exact version and hence find the commit which caused it.
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> fabrizio
> >
> >
>
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