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[Andreas Wittmann <a_wittmann@xxxxxx>]

Thanks for your responses!

I just updated.
All fine - running as before :-)

Have a nice evening!

Andi


Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2011, 11:08 +0200 schrieb Wouter van der Graaf:
> 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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