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["Jon Young" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> bounces+jon=network-plumbers.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Dechelotte
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 6:20 PM
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> Subject: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Status of my VPC Z1: all good except
> powermanagement
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently received my VPCZ1 (VPCZ13A7E to be precise). So far, I
> only:
>  * installed a stock 64bits Ubuntu 10.10
>  * booted with nomodeset to install Adams'
> linux-image-2.6.36-0-vaioz_2.6.36-0.1_amd64.deb
>  * and that's it.
> No special boot options in grub, unmodified BIOS (R3030C3), switch on
> stamina position, and that gives me a 1600x900 resolution, wifi, sound,
> mic and webcam, all working right away. Powertop reports a power usage
> of 13W (with medium luminosity and mostly idle Wifi connection). (I
> forgot to mention that Fn-F2 to F6 to control brightness and volume
> worked too). So I feel quite spoiled already :) Thanks to everyone
> that,
> in a way or another, got us that far.
> 
> I do have a problem though with power management. As reported on some
> blogs, resuming from suspend-to-ram leaves a black screen, and so far
> only plugging an external monitoring and toggling between console and X
> could light up the internal panel (playing with xrandr didn't help). I
> haven't tried hibernation much, but the last time I tried it seemingly
> froze during restoration.
> 
> Unfortunately, the 2.6.37-6 kernel is clearly worse with that regard,
> with resuming from suspend that just boots (BIOS logo, then grub) and
> hibernation that basically reboots (the computer doesn't even halt, it
> just reboots).
> 
> Are there grub options, pm scripts, kernels I should try? Extra
> information I should provide?
Install uswsusp and then suspend with "pm-suspend --quirk-test --quirk-s3-bios --quirk-s3-mode" and I think that will fix the resume problem.
Jon