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[r1k0 <erick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

List, Aleix,

First, congrats, you might be one of the few out there to have a vpcz13
working.

Just to clarify and assert, does "it's working" mean you have the
*nvidia*card working with 3d following Adam's howto as pointed by
Jérôme's previous
email?

Thank you for your time

erick

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Aleix Solà <aleixsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi it is now working!
> - Adam's kernel 2.6.36.0
> - Installed sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7
> - Grub load options: "i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop
> acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2006\" acpi_backlight=vendor"
>
> Thank you every body!
>
> *Aleix Solà.*
>
>
>
> 2010/10/25 r1k0 <erick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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