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[Martin L <nitram@xxxxxxxxx>]

What Vaio are you using?
I tried Natty alpha3 vi a Z12(1600x1280 screen). Not much luck. I don't 
see anything at boot (screen remains blank), so I can't boot into the 
live system. I might be able to install the same way i did with 10.10 
but I don't want to ruin my mostly working system.

-Martin

Den 22-03-2011 23:05, Sasha Costanza-Chock skrev:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to say that 3 days after a fresh install of Natty Alpha 3 
> on my new Sony VAIO VPCZ, I'm happy to report that most of my issues 
> are now solved out of the box!
>
> Plus, Natty may still be buggy, but it is not crashing in ways that 
> hamper my ability to work more than once every couple of days (compiz 
> fails and reboot is necessary). So, when minor things crash I'm just 
> submitting bug reports and move on.
>
> My remaining questions are:
>
> 1. Power management
>
> I'm only getting a couple hours of battery life. What's a good tool to 
> monitor which processes are eating the power?
>
> 2. graphics cards management
>
> a. How do I know which card is active at a given moment? I can see 
> both cards are present and recognized by the system but, which is 
> running the screen?
>
> b. Switching between Intel and NVIDIA. Honestly I don't care too much 
> about this for my own purposes, it's more just curiousity :)
>
> 3. Internal microphone
>
> Doesn't seem to be working.
>
>
> More details: http://linux-on-sony-vaio-z.wikispaces.com/VPCZ1390x
>
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