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[Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>]

The yaourt command should read -S and not -U btw.

Sorry for the spamming.
/Nicklas

On 2011-10-01 17:17, Nicklas Overgaard wrote:
> Hi Paula,
>
> Sorry for the long delay. I have updated the PKGBUILD so it no longer 
> fails - that was sloppy work on my part.
>
> If I do the following (as root):
>
>     rmmod sony-laptop
>     yaourt -U sony-laptop-zseries-git
>     lsmod | grep sony
>
> I get
>     sony_laptop            52075  0
>     rfkill                 15402  3 sony_laptop,cfg80211
>
> In regard to getting it loaded on each boot, I believe that you have 
> to add "sony-laptop" to the MODULES=(...) array in /etc/rc.conf
>
> /Nicklas
> On 2011-09-29 20:27, Paula Cafeld wrote:
> > Hi Nicklas,
> >
> > thank you for your prompt reply! Unfortunately the git-package you 
> > provided does not work :-( After the installation I get the message 
> > "sh: post_install: Command not found". So I inspected the PKGBUILD 
> > file and found out that I have to:
> >
> > 1. depmod -a
> > 2. modprobe sony-laptop
> >
> > after the installation. So I did this manually, but the module does 
> > not load.
> > I noticed that you put the module under /lib/modules/..../updates. I 
> > did this too, when I compiled and installed the module manually (see 
> > my first post).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paula
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Gesendet: 20:53 Donnerstag, 29.September 2011
> > Betreff: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] sony-laptop-module doesn't load 
> > automatically on Archlinux
> >
> >
> > Well, I made it today anyway...
> >
> > You can find the module build stuff here: 
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52773
> >
> > I suggest that you install "yaourt": 
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt
> >
> > And then it's simply:
> > yaourt -S sony-laptop-zseries-git
> >
> > I can also greatly recommend you that you install the linux-sony
> >      kernel from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51456
> > If you haven't done that already :) I'm using it, just with kernel
> >      3.1 RC7
> >
> > /Nicklas
> >
> > On 2011-09-29 16:50, Paula Cafeld wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > > today I reinstalled my VGN-Z51 with Archlinux. Everythings works 
> > > fine so far :-)
> > > Unfortunately I couldn't get the sony-laptop module 
> > > (sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np8) to load at startup. I extracted the 
> > > archive under /usr/src and did a:
> > >
> > >
> > > - make
> > > - make test (the LED at the stamina/speed switch is on)
> > >
> > > - make install
> > > Afterwards the module resides in /lib/modules/3.0-pae/updates
> > > When I restart the laptop, Archlinux loads the standard
> >          sony-laptop module (version 0.6) and ignores the module in the
> >          updates directory. Does someone have an idea, what I've done
> >          wrong?
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Paula.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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