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
<mailto: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
<http://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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