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[Fabrizio Giustina <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fabrizio at what resolution are you working, I'm using 1600x900 and cannot
> get Intel working.

My Z has a 1920x1080 screen, as I said I see a couple of on/off/on/off
before gdm actually starts but with the patch provided by adam it
seems that at the end it always work.

fabrizio




> 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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