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Comment on Hello world! by ApotoCopvat

ApotoCopvat — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:16:02 +0000

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Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by Boris

Boris — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:19:10 +0000

Thanks for the very helpful infos on this site.

I got my Z13 almost perfectly working, except the dynamic graphic switching, witch is a little pity because the 2.6.37 kernel supports the dynamic switch between two graphic cards but the memory allocation thing prevents the issue from working.

Is that a problem of the NVIDIA driver, or where is the problems cause?

For the people who like to use the brightness control with keys when using the NVIDIA card, i wrote a small script that uses the nvidia-settings tool:

#suche nvidia Karte
/sbin/lspci | /bin/grep “01:00.0″

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
#echo “NVIDIA Karte gefunden…”
BR=`cat /etc/mynvidiabrightness`
MYBR=`echo “scale=1;$BR-0.1″ | bc`
echo $MYBR > /etc/mynvidiabrightness
#Punkt durch Komma ersetzen
MYBR=`echo $MYBR | sed -e “s/\./,/”`
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a Brightness=$MYBR
kdialog –passivepopup “NVIDIA Helligkeit: $MYBR” 1
fi

… then I used kde shortcuts to execute the script when pressing a key. The script above reduces the brightness to 10% every time is is executed.
For a script to raise the brightness you can replace the line:
MYBR=`echo “scale=1;$BR-0.1″ | bc`
with
MYBR=`echo “scale=1;$BR+0.1″ | bc`

To use the script you first have to (as root):
echo 0 > /etc/mynvidiabrightness
chmod 777 /etc/mynvidiabrightness

The script shows a small info of the brightness level on a kde enviroment. If you use gnome you can replace the line (or comment it):
kdialog –passivepopup “NVIDIA Helligkeit: $MYBR” 1
with a appropriate gnome (maybe zenity…) command.

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by ph0b

ph0b — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:53:05 +0000

you have to copy the dump.rom you’ve just created in the file where the python script is.

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by Martin

Martin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:50:13 +0000

srry for bothering again
When I python advanced_menu.py dump.rom new.rom
it say’s that:

python: can’t open file ‘dump.rom’: [errno 2] no such file or directory

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by Martin

Martin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:34:37 +0000

that was quick yeah it worked and srry too I also made a mistake
I mistook ”shift >” for : when it was ”Ø” in my keyboard
o_O

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by ph0b

ph0b — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:25:17 +0000

I made a small mistake in that guide, try “cd C:”

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by Martin

Martin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:22:05 +0000

I don’t kinda get the bios hack guide
If I type c: it’s say’s bad comman

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by stan

stan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:49:15 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot for this helpfull hints… I got mine Z13 working even with graphics switching. But i cannot get suspend or hibernate working. hibernate always results in a immediatelly reboot and suspend seems to work but it simply boots up if i try to wake the Z. Do you have any idea?

I use Ubuntu 10.10 with software raid, could that be the problem?

Thanks in advance

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by ph0b

ph0b — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:31:43 +0000

lol, I apologize, that’s a global rule on my server.
Anyway, this file doesn’t really matter now there is a good 2.6.37 kernel… so I’ll let it that way.. as lol as it is

Comment on Linux on Vaio VPC-Z by zob

zob — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:23:36 +0000

For a blog about linux proposing a .config to download.. you should REALLY avoid blacklisting wget user agent, lol. That’s pretty annoying to get a 403 forbidden when you paste it on the wget command line and having to go put the user agent option or use firefox or what not