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["K. Posern" <quickhelp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting email address :)

What is the difference between the Z13 and the Z12?

Thanks!

Knuth

On 12/24/2010 12:08 AM, shairemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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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