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[Gyhor <gyhor@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

i have a Sony VPC-Z21 with the external PMD (Dockingstation with an ATI Radeon 
HD 6700M).
After reading trough the mailing list and different bug-entries i have a 
semi-functional installation :/
With Kernel 3.2RC7 the following things are working:
 - The F-keys (F3,F4,F5,F6,F7,F12)
 - Suspend
 - Audio
 - Wlan (with intel wireless enabled in kernel)
 - Intel gfx with 3d
 - clickpad is working (after the description from DoTheDog)
 - PMD is only working if it is connect before booting
 - PMD Network, USB, CD
 - VGA direct from the notebook
 - ASSIST and WEB Key

That is not working:
 - Key "VAIO" is not working (no events with xev)
 - Radeon Card in the PMD (Dockingstation)

The bad thing is, that without the radeon card there is no dual monitor 
configuration :(

I was digging around and found this bug-reports, which could be helpful:
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41265
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40576
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/55899

I tried the radeon and the fglx driver and none of them with success.

In dmesg it got this messages:
[   41.336665] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA 
controller, please try module parameter "video.allow_duplicates=1"if the current 
driver doesn't work.

and

[   41.338525] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (TURKS 0x1002:0x6740 
0x104D:0x9084).
[   41.338550] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   41.338569] [drm] register mmio base: 0xC0200000
[   41.338571] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
[   41.338650] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
[   41.338756] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
[   41.338794] [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
[   41.338815] radeon 0000:16:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
[   41.338835] [drm] radeon: finishing device

[   41.339927] vga_switcheroo: disabled
[   41.340193] radeon 0000:16:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[   41.340200] radeon: probe of 0000:16:00.0 failed with error -22

i don't know what to do. if i don't get a dual monitor configuration to work, i 
have to send the notebook back or worse i have to use windows ;/

thanks and a happy new year
Gyhor