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[Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi eric, two questions:
1) Does it work with grub1?
2) At which screen resolution are you working?

2010/8/17, Eric Lacombe <goretux@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Adam,
>
> I just wanted to thank you for your involvement, and also to give positive
> feedback on my Sony Vaio Z11Z9E.
>
> I've just merge your patch sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7-v3.patch, and I can
> attest that the Nvidia card is powered off when I use the Intel internal GPU
> :
> powertop gives good power consumption numbers, and the Xorg log only show
> the
> Intel GPU (instead of the 2 GPU that were shown before).
>
> About my config : I currently run under a 2.6.35.2 (with Kubuntu distrib)
> with
> grub 1 (dual boot with Win 7) and use only the Intel GPU under Linux.
> Also, raid 0 is working without the need to use grub2 (it seems to be a
> problem shown on this list?).
> About suspend to RAM, it works great when I issue sudo "pm-suspend" after
> doing some tricks at resume (see below), but through KDE interfaces it keeps
> going wrong without an inconvenient trick.
> If someone have an idea? I give more information on the residual problem
> below.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Eric
>
>
> Suspend to RAM information (tested only with Intel GPU) :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (See also the thread "[Sony-vaio-z-series] VPCZ11Z9E - screen does not light
> up on resume" for directly related information)
>
> The suspend operation works well with the VPCZ11Z9E (I checked 2.6.33
> through
> 2.6.35 under Kubuntu distrib). But resuming does not light up the screen
> without some tricks.
>
> 1. First trick (not satisfactory) :
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> When resume step seems complete, plug an auxiliary monitor (does not need to
> be powered...) through the VGA connector, and the laptop screen light up
> immediately.
>
> 2. Second trick :
> -------------------------
>
> Basically put these line at the end of your resuming scripts:
> xrandr --output DP3 --off
> xrandr --output DP3 --auto
>
> With pm-utils go there : /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/
>
> Create a script with a name like : 01sony-vaio (don't forget chmod
> +x). And put stuff like this :
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # light up laptop screen for vaio VPCZ11Z9E
>
> . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"
>
> resume_lapscreen()
> {
>     /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --off
>     /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --auto
> }
>
> case "$1" in
>         thaw|resume) resume_lapscreen ;;
>         *) exit 0 ;;
> esac
>
>
> *WARNING* This is sufficient when you only directly issue the pm-suspend
> command, but if you request suspend through KDE means, it does not work (and
> you need to go on with the first trick). See below for more information.
>
> Information took from precedent emails I sent on- and off-list:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #I delved deeper and I find that KDE use HAL scripts, and for suspend it is
> :
> #
> #/usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux
> #
> # And that script executes pm-suspend...
> #I then compared the pm-suspend.log issued first when I type "sudo
> pm-suspend"
> #(and all works well) and then through KDE features (where my monitor does
> not
> #light up).
> #
> #The logs are the same except that my script containing the two commands
> with
> #xrandr produces "Can't open display" twice, when I suspend through KDE
> #features... Don't know why :/
>
> After some discussion with Bernd Edler (off list), I created this script :
>
> /usr/sbin/specific-resume-commands :
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
>
> export DISPLAYUSER=`ps --no-heading -o user -C kdeinit4`
> /usr/bin/xauth add `sudo -u $DISPLAYUSER -s /usr/bin/xauth list :0.0`
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
> /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --off
> /usr/bin/xrandr --output DP3 --auto
>
>
> and call it through my pm-utils script (01sony-vaio) via sudo -s.
> Here 01sony-vaio updated :
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # light up laptop screen for vaio VPCZ11Z9E
>
> . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"
>
> case "$1" in
>         thaw|resume) sudo -s /usr/sbin/specific-resume-commands ;;
>         *) exit 0 ;;
> esac
>
>
> But my pm-suspend.log shows these lines when I suspend from KDE means :
>
> ...
> /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01sony-vaio resume suspend:/usr/bin/xauth:
> timeout
> in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
> /usr/bin/xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
> /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1:  bad "add" command line
> No protocol specified
> Can't open display :0.0
> No protocol specified
> Can't open display :0.0
> Returned exit code 1.
> ...
>
> And "resume from RAM" still works great when I directly type sudo pm-
> suspend... (and the pm-suspend.log is ok)
>
>
> This is the end of the story for the moment. I didn't try anything else
> since
> then.
>
>
> Le samedi 31 juillet 2010 17:10:54 Adam Hill, vous avez écrit :
>> 	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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