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[Usama al-Binni <ualbinni@xxxxxxx>]

Hi. I had actually posted before using a gmail account and didn't know 
there was a problem with that. So here's my question again. On my Z820G 
I've dual booted ubuntu with win7 for quite a while and recently gave 
fedora13 a try. So far I haven't been successful in making the nVidia 
card work, let alone the graphics switch. I tried the janitor script a 
couple of months ago and I couldn't get it to work.

I'm not a linux newbie but I'm not an expert either, I'm hoping someone 
could point me to a place and/or give me clear instructions to make this 
and hopefully other features of the laptop to work.

Another question is the issue of the patched bios, is it going to be 
needed for accomplishing any of that?

Regarding the Linux distro to use, is there any recommendation, pros and 
cons of ubuntu vs. fedora for use with a vaio z? Right now I'm 
considering a clean install of both Windows and Linux, so I'm open to 
changing back to ubuntu if there's an advantage to doing that. Thank you 
all in advance.


Usama al-Binni