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[Sohrab Naushad <sohrab.naushad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey guys,
Sorry to be bothering once again but the www.global-social.net has been down
all day. Is there somewhere else I can get the janitor script? Id love to
have another go at it. Thanks!

Sohrab Naushad

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Sohrab Naushad <sohrab.naushad@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi guys,
> First of all I'd like to thank all the people who put the time and effort
> into writing these scripts to make our machines more compatible with linux.
> Just a little info about me and my system. I've been using ubuntu for
> roughly about a year and love every bit of it. Started with 10.10 and have
> been on 11.04 for quite some time. I purchased this laptop in july, 2009 so
> it might be older than some of the new systems you people might have.
> Because almost everything worked out of the box with ubuntu and my relative
> lack of knowledge in customizing and optimizing my system I didn't do much
> to get everything functional. The only thing that did not work was the
> Nvidia graphics card. Everything else e.g FN keys, memory card readers,
> brightness control, mic worked right out of the box for me. As of late i've
> been learning more about ubuntu and wish to make my system even greater.
> Before I stumbled upon this page, I tried the vgaswitcheroo mechanism to
> switch between graphics cards. The switching didn't work but I did find out
> that with the stock install both of my cards are powered on even when only
> the intel card is being used for unity. I installed powertop and saw that it
> was sucking alot of juice. So I disabled the nvidia card by using the
> vgaswitcheroo mechanism. The way i did this was:
>
> 1) In the kernel parameters, I set *modeset=1*
> 2) In the */etc/rc.local* I set *echo IGD >
> /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch* and *echo OFF > **>
> /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch.*
>
> This effectively turned off the nvidia card and with some more power
> customizations like black listing bluetooth and the pcmcia I got about 3.5
> hours of battery life at 10 W/h from my battery which is 70.7% health at the
> moment. After this I wanted to fix my nvidia card so I could use hardware
> acceleration for youtube etc which is now using HTML 5.
>
> The first time I ran this script, i was using the 3.0.3 Linux kernel from
> the mainline ubuntu ppa. I still had the vgaswitcheroo mechanism running and
> that broke my system. I had a very hard time recovering my data via live CD
> from an encrypted home folder. I re-installed ubuntu with the stock kernel
> and tried again. Everything went well although I did not understand the
> instructions on the global-social so well. After rebooting I could get the
> speed light to show up, but when I logged on Unity was on not by default. I
> went into additional hardware drivers to see 3 new nvidia drivers which were
> not activated. I activated one of those and rebooted. This time not being
> able to load into graphical user interface. It kept giving me an error that
> the kernel module was nvidia 280 and the driver installed was 270. I tried
> to run the script numerous times in stamina and while having removed
> !windows 2006 from the kernel parameters but the driver would not get
> installed.
>
> Now this is the third time i've installed ubuntu 11.04. And just before I
> try this process again I want to make sure im doing it right. Oh, and all of
> sudden the script is no longer downloading from the website. Is the server
> down? Can I get it from somewhere else? This is the msg I get.
>
> soh@soh-VGN-Z620N:~$ *sudo wget -NP /usr/local/bin/
> http://global-social.net/files/sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor
> [sudo] password for soh:
> --2011-09-18 08:57:37--
> http://global-social.net/files/sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor
> Resolving global-social.net... 87.178.58.71
> Connecting to global-social.net|87.178.58.71|:80... failed: Connection
> refused.*
>
> Alright, so once I get the script. This is what I plan to do please make
> corrections if im going wrong somewhere. First my system info:
> *
> Linux soh-VGN-Z620N 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55
> UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux*
>
> 1) I add *"acpi_osi=\\\"!Windows 2006\\\"* to grub. One question here. In
> grub there are two lines *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=* and* **GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=*does it make a difference which line I put it in?
>     From what I understand in this step by adding this to grub with the
> back slash's this kernel entry is inactivated unless we go into kernel boot
> parameters at boot and remove the \ back slashs, and what this command does
> is asks the acpi not to uninitilize at next reboot so that the card can
> remain active or something like that.
>
> 2) Download and run the script. Allow it to do its stuff. Let it download
> the newest drivers from the ftp server.
>
> 3) After everything is installed according to the sony vaio z wiki, i put
> this script in the *rc.local*.
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>
> *lspci | grep "00:02.1" *
>
> *if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then *
>
>    - *cp /etc/X11/xorg.INTEL /etc/X11/xorg.conf ln -sf
>    /usr/lib/libGL.so.INTEL /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ln -sf
>    /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.INTEL
>    /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so *
>
> *else *
>
>    - *cp /etc/X11/xorg.NVIDIA /etc/X11/xorg.conf ln -sf
>    /usr/lib/libGL.so.185.18.08 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ln -sf
>    /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.185.18.08
>    /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so *
>
> *fi *
>
> 4) Open nvidia settings, save a configuration. And put the path into /
> etc/default/switch-x-to
>
> 5) Reboot. In the kernel parameters remove backslashs. Itll boot into
> stamina, then reboot again and itll boot into speed?
>
> 6) Hopefully everything will work this time?
>
> Sorry for this being so long. I read the instructions many many times and
> im a noob so I cant trouble shoot this alone. Ill be very grateful to anyone
> who can help me out. Thanks
>
> Sohrab Naushad
>
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