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[Andreas Wittmann <a_wittmann@xxxxxx>]

Hi Shai,

I think I got a similar "lovely machine".
Product name on the machine is VPCZ13C5E, customized recently at sony
online and the hardware is like that on VPCZ139E/X.

I set it up as described here:
http://www.adhocism.net/2010/11/installing-ubuntu-10-10-on-sony-vaio-vpc-z13m9eb

Two things I did differently:
- I disabled the nouveau nvidia driver by installing nvidia using
synaptic first
- I got the latest nvidia driver directly from nvidia downloads.

To sum it up:
- Ubuntu 10.10 + Win7 running (dual boot)
- Using Adam's kernel and upstart script
- I'm using an external monitor on the docking station's DVI port as
main: Too bad this requires the nvidia card :-( and thus
- I need to start the 2.6.28.10 reboot-kernel prior to starting 2.6.37.6
- Suspend/hibernate does not yet work (I think I saw a post concerning
this, but have not yet managed to try) so I simply set gnome to only
switch of the screen when I close the labtop

One last thing:
In order to deal with switching on/off the external monitor (i.e. when I
want to take the machine from the docking station) I'm using disper:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/disper

To switch to labtop only: "disper -S"
To switch to external-main/labtop: "disper -d auto -e -t left"


Only flaw is the need to boot two kernels to start ubuntu... but I
learned to accept that.


Andi


Am Donnerstag, den 23.12.2010, 21:08 -0800 schrieb
shairemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently got a lovely machine -- the Vaio VPCZ1390x (a customized Z series machine). It turned out to be an ubuntu disaster:
>  
> The installer can't even run properly - once it tries to start X the screen blanks and that's it; hard (power-button) reboot only; no magic SysRq. Same thing happens with Adam's kernel, except the speed/stamina LED comes on with a mode matching the switch setting.
> 
> The only X windows driver I managed to get to work is the vesa "failsafe" at 1280x1024; the native resolution is 1900x1080. Both the Intel and the Nvidia drivers fail to start, reporting no available screens. I got the LCD EDID downloaded from windows and tried to inject it via the xorg.conf -- no banana. An external screen doesn't work either.
> 
> Audio isn't working. Both the nVidia and the Intel chips report an audio driver. Windows claims to use a RealTek which Linux doesn't seem to find.
> 
> Any ideas on how to make this machine's audio and video work?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Shai
> 
> 
> 
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