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[Jordi Augé <jordi@xxxxxxxx>]

I just followed the instructions found here: 
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/473226-insyde-hacking-new-vaio-z-advanced-menu-bios.html 

I had some trouble finding the insyde fla utility (apparently it's propietary forbidden-sharing stuff), there's a working link to it somewhere down the same thread. The rest of the process was quite straightforward, as long as you have the nerve to gamble with bricking such an expensive gadget! 

Just be really careful with the process, specially the "python advanced-menu.py" and have a close look at the output, see if it prints any error messages. 

Good luck! 


De: "Philippe Piatkiewitz" <philippe@xxxxxxxxxx> 
A: "Jordi Augé" <jordi@xxxxxxxx> 
Cc: sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Enviat: Divendres, 10 de Desembre 10el 2010 19:46:20 
Assumpte: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] New Vaio Z13, problems 

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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