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Re: Progress report for Z2 2011

 

Hi Konstantin, hi Nicklas,

Thanks for reply.

The PDM is Power Media Dock, external dock with additional graphic card Ati
Radeon HD, optical reader/burner (DVD or BR) and additional port hdmi and
usb.

Ok , I'll update grub and install sony-laptop-module in current version.

By.

2011/11/2 Konstantin Osipov <kostja.osipov@xxxxxxxxx>

> * 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).
>
> --
>



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Nicolas Dupain

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