I may be talking to myself here :) but I'll report anyways... There is a new Nvidia driver out that will be in Ubuntu's next distro, Karmic, which takes care of my earlier problems of not being able to activate compiz...
.debs are here...https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/archive Please note, this is a fix to my problem of following the directions to get cold switching working, and still not being able to use Compiz on the Nvidia-180 drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty amd64... Thanks, Anthony HAS ANYONE EXPLORED WHAT I MENTIONED ON HOT SWAPPING POSSIBLILITY? On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, ajmctaggart <ajmctagg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still have not figured this one out...any ideas? > > Basically, with all scripts and drivers in place...cold switching is no > problem. However, the Nvidia driver is killing my backlight controls and > compiz capability... > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, ajmctaggart <ajmctagg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Okay, I hae figured it out, at least partially... >> >> Something about the Nvidia driver causes me to lose compiz and backlight >> controls, even when I'm in Stamina Mode. >> >> Leaving ALL settings the same, all switch scripts, etc...by simply >> uninstalling the Nvidia 180 driver, and leaving my machine in stamina, all >> returned to normal... >> >> I will now try to reinstall Nvidia, and blacklist in the >> /etc/modprobe.d/sony.conf file... >> >> If anyone else knows how to help me fix this, it's greatly appreciated. >> This is my production machine, and I knew I should have not tried this till >> the weekend :( >> >> Thanks, >> Anthony >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Albert Vilella <avile...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> That sounds promising! >>> >>> >>>> ALSO, I found an interesting hiccup that may help you gurus figure out >>>> hot switching...After I couldn't get my brightness or Compiz working, I >>>> figured that I'd try to re-test the sony module .9 by Eva...I was in speed >>>> mode, and really wasn't thinking...When I did a "make test" the x server >>>> died, and the light switched from speed to stamina, but the computer was >>>> still running! Nothing I did would bring up another x session and I >>>> couldn't get to a terminal, but it still did "hot switch," in a sense! So >>>> maybe there is something there? I really don't know... >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help thus far, almost there! >>>> -Anthony >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >>>> Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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