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[Matteo Carminati <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Rutger, dear all,

I spent all the day trying to make (at least one of) the graphic cards
working properly, but I failed: I still have random colors, even if X
seems to work correctly =(

- I updated the system to the last version of all the packages: no
problems with it, but it was useless;
- I tried to boot with the grub.cfg file posted by K.Posern
(https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg01588.html), but I
think it works only for a non-RAID configuration and I do not know how
to modify it for my system (add "set gfxpayload=text" seems not to be
enough);
- Last I tried to install grub1, but again I had some problems and I
had to get back to grub2.

I'm wondering why I'm having these problems if Ubuntu 10.10 + grub2
works without particoular problems to other users.
Do I have to install any particoular package? In which position must
be the graphic switch? Should I boot windows before linux?

I hope someone can help me, I'm quite sad about this situation: having
a great computer and cannot exploit all its features is really bad.
Thank you all again for the support!

Best regards,
Matteo

2010/10/4 Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nice to hear!
>
> I use no patches, just the linux16 and initrd16 in grub.cfg. I do not
> know why it gives you the wrong colours. I have installed all Ubuntu
> updates, maybe that helps for you too? Does X work ok for you?
>
>
> 2010/10/4 Matteo Carminati <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Thank you Rutger!
> > Following your suggestions I managed to shrink the win7 partition and
> > install Ubuntu 10.10, maintaining the original RAID configuration. Moreover
> > I hadn't problems installing grub in a small /boot partition!
> > Before editing the grub.cfg file I had only a black screen, now Ubuntu can
> > boot, but the colours on the screen are completely wrong, as they appeared
> > booting from the liveCD without nomodeset option.
> > What have you done in order to have one of the two graphic cards working? Is
> > there any kernel patch to apply, as it was for the 34 kernel version?
> > Thank you again!
> > Best regards,
> > Matteo
> >
> > 2010/10/2 Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Hi Matteo,
> >>
> >> I've seen other people talking about changing the raid config, because
> >> installation failed otherwise, but I did not have that problem. So my
> >> raid config is still as was originally (4 * 64 in raid0).
> >>
> >> In short I did this to install Ubuntu 10.10 64bit beta:
> >> - Boot from the Ubuntu 10.10 beta 64bit DVD. This was rather hard
> >> because the graphics do not get initialised properly, I think what did
> >> the trick was booting to windows first and then booting to the DVD,
> >> but it's been a while ago I tried.
> >> - Resize the Windows disk. I tried resizing from Windows, but that
> >> only allowed me to shrink it by around 100Gb or so. From Linux I could
> >> resize to it any value. After resizing you have to boot Windows again
> >> to let it scan / fix the ntfs. Then again boot the DVD.
> >> - Now I could install Ubuntu 10.10 beta 64bit without problems. The
> >> four 64Gb ssd's were named /dev/sda to /dev/sdd. Don't use these
> >> directly because they are used in the raid array. Instead use
> >> /dev/mapper/xxxx_Volumexxx. Simply add an extended partition to
> >> /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume0 and add your Linux partitions in there. These
> >> will be named e.g. /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume05, 06 and 07.
> >> - I installed grub to /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume0. I think I did that
> >> manually because the installer gave an error.
> >> - I edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to change linux to linux16 and initrd
> >> to initrd16, and I have added these kernel options: i8042.nopnp
> >> acpi_backlight=vendor. I don't need the 'nomodeset' kernel option with
> >> the change to linux16 and initrd16. Now I can use the intel graphics
> >> correctly, except that brightness does not work yet.
> >>
> >> I hope this helps anyone installing Linux while keeping Windows 7 up
> >> and running.
> >>
> >> With kind regards,
> >>
> >> Rutger Hendriks
> >>
> >> 2010/10/2 Matteo Carminati <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Thank you all for the answers!
> >> > I tried with the beta of ubuntu 10.10, as suggested by Michael, but I
> >> > was
> >> > not able to force vesa drivers to have a graphical interface nor to use
> >> > the
> >> > alternate edition to perform a text installation (since the mirror could
> >> > not
> >> > recognize the maverick release). Am I doing something wrong? Any other
> >> > suggestion?
> >> > Otherwise, I'll get rid of the and try to install both the OSs, hoping
> >> > it
> >> > could work.
> >> > Best,
> >> > Matteo
> >> > 2010/9/30 Michael Schramm <michael.schramm@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi
> >> >>
> >> >> Have you tried to use the beta of ubuntu 10.10?
> >> >> That worked for a friend of mine.
> >> >>
> >> >> Br michael
> >> >>
> >> >> Am 30.09.2010 19:26 schrieb "Matteo Carminati"
> >> >> <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >> > Hi all,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This is my first mail in this mailing-list and I hope I could be
> >> >> > helpful
> >> >> > in
> >> >> > the future, even if I'm not a linux expert, but now I need some help.
> >> >> > I bought a VPCZ1290X (4GB RAM - 2x128 GB SSD - 1600x900 screen), a
> >> >> > pair
> >> >> > of
> >> >> > weeks ago and I now want to have linux on it.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'd like to have both win and a linux distribution on it, but I did
> >> >> > not
> >> >> > found a way to install linux without deleting the original win7
> >> >> > installation, due to the RAID 0 configuration of the two SSDs that
> >> >> > cannot be
> >> >> > recognized by all the linux installers I tryed.
> >> >> > What I want to do is to disable the RAID 0 configuration in the bios,
> >> >> > but I
> >> >> > suppose in this way the win7 installation will be corrupted. Is this
> >> >> > correct?
> >> >> > Is there another way to install both linux and win, preserving the
> >> >> > original
> >> >> > win7 installation?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thank you all for the answers!
> >> >> > Regards,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Matteo
> >> >
> >> >
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