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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

Norbert and Nicklas, Thank you for your help and input. I have compiled a
new kernel, 3.1.0-rc6 with the vaio patch, and I disabled sparse_irq while I
was at it. No other patches. And now I have brightness control, power
consumption is much better, ctro+alt+f2 works, suspension works with an
external monitor attached (wierd), Hibernate does not work. It just logs me
out and blanks the screen. If I move the mouse a login screen comes on.

Still troubling, WWAN doesn't work, fingerprint reader doesn't work although
it may just be a detection thing that I will look into. I can't seem to get
the media dock external video card working either.

One final thing that is really wierd is that when I am on battery and I
leave the usb mouse alone for a minute, it requires a click to get it to
move, without it the cursor doesn't respond and the laser light is off. I
think it might be a laptop-mode setting. i will have to look into that as
well.

But thanks again for the help! This is a HUGE improvement.

DoTheDog

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mo, 19 Sep 2011, Nicklas Overgaard wrote:
> > 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...
>
> The patches in this kernel are also included in my sony-laptop
> module (vaio-full-3.0-rc.patch), so yes, that is the samee.
>
> THe only difference is that in the module I maintain there is also
> the option to turn off the nvidia card if you have one and running
> intel.
>
> > I haven't tried the WWAN module yet, nor the fingerprint reader. And
>
> Both of these are independent from the sony module, as they are
> either its own driver (hso or so), or USB module (fingerprint)
>
> > 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
>
> That also explains why you don't need the specific module as
> you don't have a built-in additional GPU, so no power saving
> necessary.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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