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[Paolo Tosco <paolo.tosco@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm running CentOS 5.5 (yeah, I know this is a Ubuntu list, but there's 
so much knowledge and expertise about Linux on VAIO Z series laptops 
here that I hope you will want to help me anyway, if you can) on a 
2.6.35.1 kernel and Sony VAIO laptop np7 module patched as suggested by 
Adam. I have carefully followed Adam's instructions about how to load 
the i915 module properly (that is, using the rc.local.moved script which 
prints a lot of "....." before actually loading the module), but I still 
get a hardlock of the machine with a black, off, screen. The machine 
cannot be accessed nor pinged from the network and even Caps Lock LED is 
not lighting up, so it looks like a complete kernel hardlock. This has 
consistently been the behaviour until now, no matter which precautions I 
have taken: as soon as I try to load the i915 module with modeset=1, I 
get this hardlock. I am running on CentOS 5.5 with a rebuilt Xorg tree 
since the one which ships with the OS is too old for the latest 2.12.0 
Intel userspace driver. I used to do the same with my previous VGN Z 
series Vaio and it was working perfectly, since I did not need to use 
KMS. But since with this new VPC KMS is mandatory for using the Intel 
card, I'm completely stuck. Has anyone any suggestions.

Thanks a lot for everybody's time,
cheers

Paolo

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