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[Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In regard to the battery i have 6-7 hours with the modified grub line 
and *laptop-mode-tools*. They are really magical and save a lot of power :)

I'm on kernel 3.1.0 with the patches from the sony-laptop module applied 
directly.

I guess the rest of the list is correct.

/Nicklas

On 2011-11-02 22:00, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
> * Dupain Nicolas<nicolas.dupain@xxxxxxxxx>  [11/11/02 23:06]:
> > Is it possible to make a progress report for Z2 2011 with ubuntu 11.10,
> > kernel 3.1.0.1 (https://launchpad.net/ ~ kernel-ppa / + archive / ppa)
> > What works:
> I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Sony VAIO VPC Z21x9r,
> this is what I got:
>
> http://kostja-osipov.livejournal.com/39645.html
>
> > This does not work
> > - Standby and hibernation, except with an external display
> Suspend works here okay, hibernation it's flaky -- it doesn't
> always come back.
>
> > - fingerprint reader
> Didn't test.
> > - graphics card of PMD
> What's PMD?
>
> > - Management of the battery (less than three hours of battery life instead
> > of 7 and indications of load times fanciful)
> Haven't tested yet.
>
> > - Modify grub adding "pcie_aspm i915.i915_enable_rc6=1">  I have a doubt on
> > the version>  rc10 today?
> I believe on the recent kernels enable_rc6 is the default (at least
> according to the commit messages in drm-intel-next tree).
>
> > - Install the sony-laptop module>  is not clear :/ is there a version for
> > kernel 3.1? is the sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np8 works fine (for kernel
> > 2.6.39)?
> 0.9pn8 works with kernel 3.1 as well (here).