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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On my VPCZ12CGX/x I've got the bios hacked so that only the video card
I ask for comes up and the thing just comes up and works properly on
the Intel video.  On Nvidia it wasn't working out of the box... A
little work gets it to go but I'd bet that if you got it to just come
up and go out of the box that you're on Intel...

I'd also say that until you get static switching of video working and
get one of those cards turned off that you're going to be a little
lack luster on battery life.

~Brett

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 10:13:12 Martin L wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I recently tested alpha3 and I had the same problem, but only with nvidia (I
> had speed switch set, and static switching via acpi_osi kernel param, so
> booting directly from my working system to alpha3 live CD meant I was still
> using static-switched nvidia).  Rebooting into the live CD again (such that
> acpi_osi was not in effect from previous boot) got me a working system with
> presumably Intel.  I haven't had a chance to play further.
>
> I'm pretty sure nvidia worked with alpha2 so there may have been a regression.
> hmmm
>
> Justin
>
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