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[Gerald Nunn <gnunn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to script the detection of the PMD on boot and then adjust things
accordingly, I documented how I did it for Ubuntu in the second post here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/702034-sony-vaio-z-2012-review-linux-perspective.html

Gerald


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Roberto Gardenier <
robertogardenier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It has been a while since I last tried to get everything in good working
> order.
> Last time I managed to finally get the PMD to work (the magic trick was
> the tutorial from DoTheDog, and to disable fastboot in Bios).
>
> Soon after getting the multi display to work I found the following still
> confronting me:
> - Configuring the mutli monitor setup makes the x server crash when not
> connected to the PMD.
> - The PMD keeps blowing steam when connected.
>
> I found out that the last issue has to do something with the power
> management, a bug which makes the GPU work on 100%, no matter what.
>
> I don't want to use the PMD knowing that the GPU keeps running hot, 100%
> of the time. This lowers its lifespan and is unnecessary.
>
> So my questions are:
> - Someone knows how to make the device able to get back to one screen
> setup by default, when not connected to the PMD?
> - Someone knows how to handle this issue ?
>
> With kind regards,
> Roberto
>
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