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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

	I've created for myself a kernel for the vaio Z which is based on the 
VERY EARLY Ubuntu Natty kernel. This has all of the fixes that I know of, 
namely:

i915 driver fixes for black screen on boot.
Hopefully a resume fix, though I'm not sure which changes were needed for this 
and can't test it myself.
Trackpad fix ( no i8042 boot options any more )
My version of Norbert's sony-laptop np7 module.
My ACPI fix for the NVidia hda-intel sound chip when NVidia is disabled

	I have to stress that i HAVE NOT TESTED THIS KERNEL FOR MORE THAN A FEW 
HOURS WITH WIRED NETWORK and also that Natty is SIX MONTHS away and so this 
kernel is very much an early version which MAY CONTAIN SERIOUS BUGS, could 
CORRUPT YOUR DISK, and power use might be bad. I really can't stress enough 
that it is at your own risk! 

	However, for Ubuntu users it will contain all of the normal modules and 
patches which would be associated with that OS, and so it *may* work better 
for some people. I've been using it myself for a while and it "seems to work", 
and I figured that since I'd gone to the trouble of creating it I may as well 
make it available in case anyone else wants to try! As usual itsat 
http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam and there are three .deb files associated 
with this one, version 2.6.36-0-vaioz.

Adam.