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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

One more odd thing. When the second extended battery is attached, the power
management keeps suspending the machine even though the other battery is
full. Any ideas on this?

DoTheDog

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nicklas, Thank you for the quick response. I do have a couple of questions.
>
> 1. So we are using the same mesa. Would you suggest we move back to 7.11?
> Also, when you had an external monitor working, were you using hdmi, or vga
> and I assume that you were using the connectors on the laptop itself and not
> the media dock?
> 2. So you compiled a 3.1 kernel using the patches in the link and in
> menuconfig you put
>
> CONFIG_SONY_LAPTOP=y ? And that made it so that the fn keys worked including brightness?
>
> 3. So you didin't have suspend/resume working until you changed to the patched 3.1?
>
> 4. At what point did you not need to add "nomodeset" to the grub line. With
> the new kernel?
> 5. What settings are you using for laptop-mode-tools?
> 6. So when you come out of suspension, without an external monitor it comes
> back to a black screen, but if you hit ctrl+alt+F2 a TTY shows up on the
> Laptop monitor? or the external  monitor attached it resumes to display on
> the external and black on the laptop?
>
> In any event it appears that the patched 3.1 kernel fixes a bunch of stuff.
> I guess I will try to compile it for ubuntu.
>
> Again, thanks for your help on this!
>
> DoTheDog
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Welcome :)
>>
>> I was running with mesa from GIT, so it's probably 7.12-dev yes. Before
>> the update, I was able to use external and onscreen monitor without any
>> issues. After updating, my external monitor would go black or red or
>> something when logging into gnome. A suspend resume fixed the issue...
>>
>> Kernel 3.0 was not working out very well, so after Norbert pointed out
>> that 3.1 has a lot of sandybridge fixes, I updated, which has resolved a lot
>> of issues. I'm on arch linux, and my kernel 3.1 is based off this 3.0 build:
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51456 which applies various
>> pacthes to the vanilla kernel from kernel.org to bring better sony
>> support.
>>
>> I dont have the extra sony-laptop module, but i'm pretty sure that the
>> patches i'm applying incudes some of the stuff from that module...
>>
>> All my FN keys are working, mute, sound up/down, brightness up/down etc.
>> After installing laptop-mode-tools I have around 6 hours of battery life
>> when i'm just writing reports, coding and browsing the internet.
>>
>> I haven't tried the WWAN module yet, nor the fingerprint reader. And also,
>> I can't get the external video card working, it complains about not being
>> able to find the BIOS. So we'll have to wait for an DRM update, as this is
>> the module complaining. Maybe we should file a bug report somewhere?
>>
>> In regard to suspend resume, it works in kernel 3.1, but only with an
>> external monitor attached. When exiting suspension without, my screen is
>> black, but I can switch to a TTY, log in and turn off the computer.
>>
>> So yes, my TTY's are working as well, with KMS so they are in native
>> resolution.
>>
>> My grub boot line has the following extra parameters: "pcie_aspm=force
>> i915.i915_enable_rc6=1" which definately has given me extra battery time.
>>
>> I hope I answered everything :)
>>
>> /Nicklas
>>
>>
>> On 2011-09-19 00:22, Rob Mukai wrote:
>>
>> Nicklas, Hi, new to this list, but can you confirm a couple of things for
>> me? Before you updated mesa (I am assuming to 7.12-dev) the external monitor
>> worked? I never tested it before updating the mesa stack so I have never
>> been able to use an external monitor. Also, did the new kernel fix any of
>> the other issues, e.g. suspend/resume, power consumption, birghtness
>> control, tty (ctr+alt+fX)?
>>
>>  DoTheDog
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running with kernel 3.1 RC6 and the issue with going out of sleep is
>>> still present. I did however experiment with upgrading my mesa stack, but it
>>> actually got worse - when I log into gnome with an external monitor on, it
>>> goes blank instead of showing my desktop....
>>>
>>> So i'm very curios to find out if the issue lies in the kernel or in the
>>> mesa stack somewhere.
>>>
>>> /Nicklas
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-09-17 20:50, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
>>>
>>>> short update:
>>>> updated to kernel 3.0.1, it didn't solve the screen blank issue
>>>>
>>>> Eva
>>>>
>>>> On Di September 6 2011 10:00:00 Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> my current conclusion is to update the kernel first. According to
>>>>> various
>>>>> people on this list, the Z has the new Intel Sandybridge. This is at
>>>>> least
>>>>> causing the X issues. For example Niklas is using Tumbleweed Suse
>>>>> instead
>>>>> of the normal Suse, so he also has a kernel 3.0.1. I'll give it a try
>>>>> and
>>>>> let you know what it fixes.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for the xserver-org-input-synaptics patches, I spend all weekend
>>>>> with
>>>>> this one. All important parts of these patches are already included
>>>>> into
>>>>> suse. I don't know the status without them, but I have multitouch
>>>>> keyboard
>>>>> working. Tab + Move works correctly to Drag&Drop. Only the hardware
>>>>> buttons don't work correctly. The patches make a new setting
>>>>> "TouchPadArea" available which is set to 20%, but somehow it doesn't
>>>>> work.
>>>>> I change the also newly introduced setting AreaBottomEdge, but it only
>>>>> helped a little bit. However, click (hw-button, keeping it pressed) +
>>>>> drag
>>>>> does not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually I read the patches and the sources, I don't think that
>>>>> Button-Press+Move works for anybody. If so, please let us know. I've
>>>>> read
>>>>> suse, ubuntu and those patches mentioned in the blog article. Archlinux
>>>>> has a different patch. Nicklas has Archlinux and he reported to use the
>>>>> normal tap workaround.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Eva
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Montag 05 September 2011, 23:12:51 schrieben Sie:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I'm using debian sid and I have the same problems as you, ie:
>>>>>> - i915.modeset=0
>>>>>> - suspend problem
>>>>>> - no sound and no mic
>>>>>> - trackpad issue
>>>>>> - cannot change brightness
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did not test but I gathered some useful informations :
>>>>>> To make sound and mic working you have to build or install at least
>>>>>> alsa 1.0.24 and maybe for the mic you have to apply a patch.
>>>>>> To make the clickpad working you have to apply some patches to
>>>>>> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/index.php/2011/05/24/better-clickpad-support
>>>>>> -for-ubuntu-11-04/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Damien R.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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