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[Philippe Piatkiewitz <philippe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jordi,

I have the same laptop as you, but did not manage to patch the BIOS. How
did you do that?

Philippe

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 18:59 +0100, Jordi Augé wrote:
> I think the backlit keyboard is totally software-independent, and will
> work even in a frozen system.
> 
> My system is a wee bit older than yours (vpcz11x9/e), and I didn't get
> it working alright until I swapped to a hacked kernel
> ( http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/ ) and hacked the bios to enable
> static switching behaviour.
> 
> That's my experience, I hope someone else in the list can tell you
> whether it's possible to get away with a dynamic switching bios and a
> standard kernel.
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> De: "blackkane" <blackkane@xxxxxxxxx>
> A: "Joël Bourquard" <joel.bourquard@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Enviat: Divendres, 10 de Desembre 10el 2010 18:50:36
> Assumpte: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] New Vaio Z13, problems
> 
> 
>         Hi,
>         
>         Congratulations for your new Vaio ! :-)
>         
>         Sorry I can't answer more (have to go) but here's already some
>         advice for #1:  to prevent your touchpad and keyboard from
>         going south in X, either use the i8042.xxxx parameters on the
>         kernel command-line or (it's better) switch to a more recent
>         kernel like 2.6.37-rc3 on which the i8042 problems are
>         automatically worked around.
>         
>         
>         
> 
> Hi,
> I've the same hardware configuration of Wounter and I use
> kernel-2.6.37-0.rc3.git3.2.fc15 but sometimes my system goes to freeze
> after login screen (it's very strange because when I type something
> the keyboard backlit responde...). 
> Regards, F.
> 
> 
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