Hi
Can someone please comfirm this? This is very intresting.
Greets
On Feb 6, 2011 6:36 PM, "chalten job" <chalten07@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:chalten07@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hello Fabrizio,
>
> I have a Sony VPCZ13A7E running debian squeeze ..
> I just compiled a 2.6.38-rc3 kernel from kernel.org
<http://kernel.org> ...
> I don't have integrated the modified module from Adam (ie I have
sony-laptop
> 0.6) and when I run lspci in stamina mode, I see only the Intel card !!
>
> Does it mean that modifications have been put into the maintstream
kernel ?
>
> 2011/2/4 Fabrizio Giustina <fgiust@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:fgiust@xxxxxxxxx>>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Justin Karneges
<justin@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>>wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np7-v3.patch (or any other
>>> obscure
>>> patch Adam is using) has been merged into the official kernel?
>>>
>>>
>> Still not there, but I just tested an installation of natty alpha
2 from
>> scratch and results are pretty good: installation with the graphic
switch in
>> stamina mode (intel driver) works fine with the standard installer
without
>> any tweaking.
>> After the installation everything works properly, although both
video cards
>> looks enabled with lspci. No touchpad/keyboard freeze without
adding any
>> kernel parameter. 3g wireless and fingerprint reader work after
installing
>> the appropriate packages already available without too much trouble.
>>
>> The missing bit/tweakings:
>> - you need to add "acpi_osi=" to the grub parameters in order to
make the
>> graphic switch work properly (leds turns on properly after this)
>> - the changes made by adam to the sony-laptop module are still not
in so
>> you have to download version 7np, patch it with adam's patch and
install
>> manually. This fixes the video card enabling/disabling so that
lspci only
>> shows one card enabled at a time.
>>
>> I can't say about the SSD/raid support since my model has a
standard HD.
>>
>>
>> pretty near... anybody have any idea how to push for adding
>> sony-laptop-module changes to the default distribution?
>>
>>
>> fabrizio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think we're having good luck on all other fronts (e.g. Intel
graphics
>>> stuff
>>> being merged constantly to official kernel), I just want to be sure
>>> nothing is
>>> getting left on the floor somewhere.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>> (still crossing fingers that Ubuntu 11.04 will have all Z-stuff
merged)
>>>
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