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[Wouter van der Graaf <wouter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

Upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric this week on my Sony Vaio VPCZ13 
without any problems. Before that I had it running Natty without any 
(real) issues.

I have a hacked bios, set to static switching. I only run on Stamina 
mode (Intel GPU). Don't have the need for Nvidia card. I still have 
Windows 7 on another partition, so I can play games on the Nvidia.

Video and rendering is fine. Audio works. Fingerprint reader works nice 
(e.g. sudo and just swipe your finger instead of having to type your 
password every time). Webcam, touchpad, card reader, volume and 
brightness buttons, all work.

What doesn't work yet: internal microphone (external does work), 
gobi2000 wwan (because I haven't tried configuring yet), GPS unit in 
gobi2000 (nothing useful found on the net), HDMI (probably because I 
disabled Nvidia).

I run the default Oneiric kernel. And I applied the latest sony-laptop 
module (0.9np8) from Norbert Preining for more control options, like 
battery charge limit and optical drive power off.

Currently I'm trying to get the ambient light sensor to handle keyboard 
and screen brightness. Someone already made good efforts, but in Oneiric 
I can't get that code to compile (other recent thread).

Because I read that this kernel has some regressions related to power 
management, I applied some kernel boot parameters to try to mitigate the 
problem: pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1.

Why don't you try running Oneiric from USB first?

If there's anything else you'd like to know?


Best,

Wouter



Op 20-10-11 00:27, Andreas Wittmann schreef:
> Hi,
>
> should I try and go for Oneiric or should I stay with Natty for some
> more time?
>
> (Natty runs fine with my VPCZ13C5E but there are still some issues, e.g.
> black screen after rebooting - but I'm curious about Oneirics
> improvements...)
>
> Andi
>
>
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