ubuntu on vpcz1

[kimbja98]

nope, brightness control still evades me which is very annoying, as that eats the battery. Also, suspend/hibernate/resume don't work for me either...and if I try doing that it immediately wakes up and the LAN is forced into 10mbt mode! If these get fixed, I'll probably be working in linux a lot more. Using flash with HW acceleration also seems to fail strangely. Because these machines are quite cutting-edge, I think it'll be maybe a month or 2 before these issues are finally sorted (it relies on clever people buying similar hardware and then submitting patches/updates )

[vaio001]

@kimbja98

thanks for the reply, i am actually working on puppy linux.

would the same apply on puppy for the i8042.nopnp trick ?

also, i decided to connect an external mouse so that i can skip forward to check functionality of the wifi. unfortunately its not running as well. so the other wifi trick you posted will it work on puppy ?

thanks

[xod]

After fighting about 10 hours with the dynamic switching graphics, it's working now.

I patched the Advanced menu of the BIOS (Thanks psyq321) and enabled the static switching. The BIOS enables and poweres the graphics card now at powering on, according to the state of the graphics switch.

Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 is running fine with Nvidia graphics, but the Intel kernel module causes the screen to black out (under 9.10, both should work).

would the same apply on puppy for the i8042.nopnp trick ?

Should work with any distro, but the config files and update scripts could be somewhere else (or a different grub version).

so the other wifi trick you posted will it work on puppy ?

The linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic package is Ubuntu-specific. I think besides using another kernel, there's not much you can do about it.

[vaio001]

@Xod

thanks, if possible can you please advise me where can i find the config files on Puppy ?

thanks

[beaups]

After fighting about 10 hours with the dynamic switching graphics, it's working now.

I patched the Advanced menu of the BIOS (Thanks psyq321) and enabled the static switching. The BIOS enables and poweres the graphics card now at powering on, according to the state of the graphics switch.

Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 is running fine with Nvidia graphics, but the Intel kernel module causes the screen to black out (under 9.10, both should work).


Should work with any distro, but the config files and update scripts could be somewhere else (or a different grub version).


The linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic package is Ubuntu-specific. I think besides using another kernel, there's not much you can do about it.

Did you get any brightness control working by any chance?

[xod]

can you please advise me where can i find the config files on Puppy ?

I can have a quick look at puppy tomorrow.

Did you get any brightness control working by any chance?

Currently using the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15 Binary driver and brightness control and standby isn't working. Maybe it's working with the Intel card or with the open source nouveau driver (lucid).

[vaio001]

thanks

i found this while searching for more info :

this is a Patch i found on another forum, not sure how to use it though.


diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h b/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
index ead0494..7c0cb87 100644
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
@@ -495,6 +495,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __initconst i8042_dmi_nopnp_table[] = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD"),
},
},
+ {
+ /* Sony Vaio VPCZ1 */
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "VAIO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Sony Corporation"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "VPCZ1"),
+ },
+ },
{ }
};

[arth1]

Hi, Arth1!

Please accept my apologies if I conveyed the wrong impression! Sure, I also have other hard-Linux boxes, including my 13-drive monster home file server, as well as my firewall/DNS/DHCP server. My only intention was to try to lower the barrier to entry for folks who'd like to join Linux land, and VMWare truly helps in that regard for such folks.

Agreed. I often recommend VMware Server, because it's free (as in beer), supports 64-bit, dual core and bridged networking out of the box, and if people later want to use special features like basic 3D support, they can easily switch to VMware Workstation. (And if they want to switch to a high performance hypervisor solution, VMware will be happy to sell you that too.)

Fedora 12 and other new Linux versions work just great with VMware, by the way. Just don't install the vmware supplied guest toolkit, but instead install openvm-tools.

For running Linux natively bare metal, though, the Sony Z is unfortunately not the most compatible laptop you can get. I do it here, but I have to reboot twice to switch between Linux and Windows, and some features (like immediate switching between graphics cards) just won't work.
And unless you take extreme care when installing, chances are that the linux bootloader install will irreversibly blow away access to your recovery partition and F10 functionality. I use Vista's bootloader just because of this, but VMware would be a good choice then too -- no risk of messing up that!

[vaio001]

Hi

i just wanted to let you know that i was successful with touchpad. thanks for all the help, and thanks to another member on puppy forum that directed me to syslinux.cfg!!
i edited the syslinux.cfg and added i8042.nopnp=1 on the kernel line

Thanks

[xod]

Does anyone has an idea why both graphic cards are working fine when booting the live cd directly from usb (Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator, syslinux) and the screen blacks out when booting the same kernel (parameters) through grub?