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[Andreas Wittmann <a_wittmann@xxxxxx>]

Hi Shai,

regarding your sound problem:

I noticed that using i8042.nopnp=1 with Adam's 2.6.37.6 gives me the
same output of lspci as yours. My sound works anyway though.

Booting on stamina without i8042.nopnp results in only the intel card in
the output of lspci.

Booting with speed, reboot-kernel first, then 2.6.37.6 gives me intel
and nvidia on lspci, but without "!!! Unknown header type 7f" on the
nvidia card.

Maybe just try without i8042.nopnp? Afaik it shouldn't be needed for
2.6.37.6 - I'm running fine without.

Andi


Am Samstag, den 25.12.2010, 14:41 -0800 schrieb
shairemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx:
> Thank you, Andreas,
> 
> With the encouragement that this should work, I tried Adam's kernel again, and found the problems which prevented it form working before. My VPCZ1390x system now starts 10.10 with the intel driver and has GLX working using 2.6.37-6-vaioz. This is my preferred mode, as I am primarily concerned with battery life; maybe in a few months I'll bother with nVidia.
> 
> The audio still doesn't seem to work. pavucontrol's configuration tab reports that there are no cards available for configuration. More on that below.
> 
> --- The Xorg caveats were:
> 
> (1) When I installed ubuntu I had to use the following options in the installer: 
>   xforcevesa nosplash nomodeset i8042.nopnp=1
> of these, I left nosplash nomodeset i8042.nopnp=1 in my /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT setting. It seems the nomodeset option prevents the kernel from starting the intel driver correctly. 
> Adam -- please add the appropriate kernel commandline dos and don'ts to your excellent README. It would have saved me a few days of grief.
> 
> (2) GLX still wasn't working. I examined /var/log/Xorg.0.log and found that even though I used aptitude to reinstall mesa GLX (the 'L' key forces a reinstall), xorg was still loading Nvidia drivers. It turns out that nvidia drivers were installed in /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/, which sits earlier in the search path for xorg than /usr/lib/xorg/modules that contains the intel GLX libraries. A sudo mv extra-modules extra-modules-NVIDIA got those drivers out of the search path and now everything intel X related seems to work okay.
> 
> (3) It seems none of the EDID hacks are needed. My current xorg.conf reads:
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
> 	Driver		"intel"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
> 	Device		"Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
> 
> --- Regarding audio, sudo lspci -v gives the following Audio devices:
> 
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High!!! Unknown header type 7f Definition Audio (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 905a
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
>         Memory at d7820000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>         Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
>         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
>         Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> 
> 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
>         !!! Unknown header type 7f
> 
> --Shai
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/24/10, Andreas Wittmann <a_wittmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Andreas Wittmann <a_wittmann@xxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Vaio VPCZ1390x
> > To: sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 4:41 AM
> > 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
> 
> 
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