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[Roberto Gardenier <robertogardenier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your reply, I will follow your instructions.
Do you also experience these heath problems with the PMD?
Roberto


2013/4/8 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:
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> http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/702034-sony-vaio-z-2012-review-linux-perspective.html
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> 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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