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["Stephan Mielke" <smielke@xxxxxx>]

Hey Philipp!

Thank you for your really quick response and the links. 

To be honest, I already found the page with the janitor script but thought it only would work with an installed Windows OS?! Hmm. Maybe it’s time to improve my English skills a little bit. I also wasn’t sure if the script will run under the latest Linux releases. But you said the distro (and the release dates?!) doesn’t matter, right?

Also I still quit new in the whole Linux environment. So I still work with some kind of respect, you understand. 

But maybe I will try the janitor-script again, sounds like the best way for me. 

The one thing that wonders me is that under Linux Mint I can use at least the intel graphics to work with the gnome 3 environment without any adjustment. With Ubuntu it’s not working. Mint is just a converted Ubuntu, right? When I check the 3d-performance in both distros using glxgears, I get (a small) performance in Mint, nothing in Ubuntu!? Hmm…

As I said, I will just try the janitor-script. 

Danke schön! 
Stephan

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:53:49 +0100
> Von: Philipp Blanke <philipp.blanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> An: Stephan Mielke <smielke@xxxxxx>
> CC: Sony Vaio Z-series Laptop <sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Sony Vaio VGN-Z11MN

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> welcome to the list. I own the same model and you can get everything
> working (distro doesn't really matter). The only thing that's not going
> to be happening soon is "dynamic switching", i.e., changing the active
> graphics card while the system is running. But "static switching" works,
> i.e., shut down - switch - start up. Only thing I have done to get that
> to work is to flash a hacked BIOS, adding "static switching" as a BIOS
> setting:
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/473226-insyde-hacking-new-vaio-z-advanced-menu-bios-37.html
> 
> but you could also do this another way, as explained here:
> http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/2009/07/enable-vt-on-insydeh2o-based-sony-vaio.html
> 
> For Ubuntu (and i guess also Mint) look at Raphael's page:
> http://global-social.net/sony-VGN-Zseries
> 
> Good instructions for the setup. He also has a script that does most of
> it for you (sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor).
> 
> Myself, I have Arch Linux installed and cobbled together my own
> solution.
> 
> Viele Grüße,
> Philipp
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 14:35 +0000, Stephan Mielke wrote:
> > Hello all of you! :)
> > 
> > I'm new here and I hope I can get some information using that in subject
> > mentioned notebook (Sony Vaio VGN-Z11MN) under Linux Ubuntu, Mint, or
> > whatever.
> > 
> > I know it's quite an old model, but for the "normal use" still quite
> > good.
> > 
> > I bought this used notebook after my old netbook seemd to slow for me
> > and my needs, and was very excited when it arrived. I didn't checked
> > before if there would be some issues with that notebook, so i tried to
> > install ubuntu 11.10 and that was the start of an odyssey.
> > 
> > To make a long speech short, I was not able to get the installed Nvidida
> > Card (GeForce 9300M GS) set to run. I tried a lot of things only
> > reinstall the Linux again.
> > 
> > Now I use Linux Mint 12 with gnome 3.2 and the intel on borad graphic-
> > chip works not so bad, but it's kind unsatisfying when you got such a
> > "strong" graphic card and didn't know how to use it.
> > 
> > Can anyone can give me some advice or/and help? What operation software
> > do you use? Does it work properly. Can I run an Linux Distro run as OS
> > alone or do I always need Windows to get the complete possibilities?
> > 
> > Thank you all in advance.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephan
> 
> 

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