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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabrizio,

Great news that it works on 1080 panels for 32 bit too - at least some
people will be happy :-). I'm working on trying to get the 1600 x 900 panels
working so the patch may change, so I'll see how that goes before hosting
the 32 bit kernel.

Adam

On 6 Aug 2010 12:08, "Fabrizio Giustina" <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>