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List, Jérôme,

Thanks Jérôme for the quick reply.

I'd like to make sure I understood you correctly.
by
 ( no 3d acceleration sadly)

Do you mean for intel or nvidia or both?

Because in this case, Sébastien has 3d acceleration on intel and you say
that Adam's solution might get 3d acceleration for nvidia which would mean
that some people have 3d on intel and some other people have it on nvidia
which is really good indeed (means in a near future one could hope to have
both or nvidia).

Did I understand you correctly or am I overinterpreting?

Thanks for the input,

Regards,

erick

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Jérôme @ Diniho <jerome@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> erick, Sebastien,
>
> look at Adam solution here :
> https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg01400.html
>
> It's work well for the Nvidia, and with Intel too ( no 3d acceleration
> sadly). I hvae a Z12, so I think that it will work with the Z13 too
>
> Jérôme
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, r1k0 <erick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> List, Sébastien,
>>
>> Thank you for the feedback.
>>
>> Facing issues with the nvidia GPUs is actually what I was fearing the
>> most. I guess Sony will never provide any bios update to let the user
>> disable the intel card.
>>
>> If only I could use the nvidia GPU would still make my day (I don't really
>> care about the Intel card, as I bought the device for everything but that
>> optimus crap).
>>
>> Luckily, I bought the device 2 days ago, so I still have 10 days to fiddle
>> around otherwise I'm just going to bring it back and get a 2KE ticket.
>> Sadly, all other devices are not really attractive compared to the vpcz13. I
>> guess I'll wait until a vpcz13 alike goes out *without* the
>> dualGPU-optimus-crap-of-the-year.
>> I'll just erase the bootloader and bring it back passing my self for
>> someone who don't know anything in computers: that's the best I get my
>> "revenge" against sony for this locked-down device.
>>
>> If I find anything worth (which I really doubt) I drop a mail here.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> erick
>>
>> ps: out of curiosty, I could even open up the laptop and just "push the
>> right button" to make the intel hardware not recognized anymore but I'm sure
>> it's not that simple.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Sébastien Roy <roys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> On 2010-10-25 03:08, r1k0 wrote:
>>> > Hi List,
>>> >
>>> > I recently took possession of a vaio vpcz13m9e and I was wondering if I
>>> > could hope succeeding in having the nvidia/intel GPUs to work using the
>>> > feedback from this ML because I see people have vpcz11 and 12 mostly
>>> and
>>> > googling around shows very few (if not none) linux users having this
>>> > device (vpcz13).
>>> > I use Gentoo and I got the system up and running using vesa so far.
>>>
>>> I own a VPCZ1390S (canadian model).
>>>
>>> It seems impossible to solve the gpu switching problem. First, the
>>> firmware (version R3030C3 in my case) can't be patched to make the
>>> "advancde menu" appear. The EFI booting trick (see
>>>
>>> http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/2009/07/enable-vt-on-insydeh2o-based-sony-vaio.html
>>> ) does not work at all.
>>>
>>> As far as the other trick (acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"), it does not seem
>>> to work at all either. It seems the VPCZ13* are not intended to run
>>> vista, so the bios probably does not care about "vista frienfly" gpu
>>> switching.
>>>
>>> Basically, I am out of options now for gpu switching.
>>>
>>> For a basic install, all is well (at least better than vesa):
>>> - Use the 10.10 installer
>>> - on the first reboot, modify the grub lines so that
>>>        - linux -> linux16
>>>        - initrd -> inird16
>>>        - quiet splash -> i8042.reset i8024.nomux i8024.noloop i8042.nopnp
>>> - after first boot, update the /etc/default/grub and
>>> /etc/grub.d/10_linux (and then update-grub) to make the previous grub
>>> changes permanent.
>>> - Install the latest sony-laptop-zseries from
>>> http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/
>>>
>>> Intel graphics work fine, including 3D acceleration. If only I could
>>> switch off the nvidia card to save power. I did not succeed there.
>>>
>>> If anyone manage to get access to the nvidia card on these machines, I'm
>>> very interested... :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sebastien
>>>
>>
>>
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