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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've not tried one of these yet being that pretty much the intel
solution does all that I need.  However sometimes use of the HDMI port
would be nice...

What is involved for someone who already has the sony-laptop-module
compiled and installed?  I assume that one needs to set this script to
run at startup...  Is running it by the "startup applications" menu
acceptable or does it need to be added to rc.local?

Then I assume you can switch to Nvidia and then install the binary
blob and still have things switch back and work once you flip back to
the Intel Side?

Its interesting enough that I might risk trying but still curious how
it all works?  Often I remember the binary blob getting upset about
things and I was only really able to get noveau to work politely.

~Brett

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Rutger Hendriks
<rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2011/11/15 Heikki Wilenius <heikki.wilenius@xxxxxx>:
>> Hi, I upgraded my Ubuntu 11.04 installation to 11.10 (Vaio
>> VPC-Z13M9E/B).
> <snip>
>> Has somebody tweaked Adam's script successfully to make it work with
>> 11.10? Any other ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Hi Heikki,
>
> Since you are using Ubuntu, you could just use the existing (and I
> guess preferred) alternatives system, like I have done in my attached
> /usr/local/sbin/vaioz-gfx-config:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh -e
> #
> # rc.local
> #
> # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
> # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
> # value on error.
> #
> # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
> # bits.
> #
> # By default this script does nothing.
>
> set_alternatives_to_intel()
> {
>        echo "Intel card active."
> #       For Ubuntu 11.04
> #       update-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/mesa/ld.so.conf
> #       For Ubuntu 11.10
>        update-alternatives --set x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf
>        ldconfig
>        return 0
> }
>
> set_alternatives_to_nvidia()
> {
>        echo "NVidia card active."
> #       For Ubuntu 11.04
> #       update-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf
> #       For Ubuntu 11.10
>        update-alternatives --set x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates/ld.so.conf
>        ldconfig
>        return 0
> }
>
>
> modprobe sony-laptop 2>/dev/null
>
> if [ -e /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/speed_stamina ]
> then
>        [ "$(cat /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/speed_stamina)" =
> "stamina" ] && set_alternatives_to_intel || set_alternatives_to_nvidia
> fi
>
> exit 0
>
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