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[William Roe <willroe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Everything is working on my VPCY21S1E now, except wake from sleep - it
doesn't turn the backlight on. This is the HM55 chipset with the Intel
graphics.
Has anyone got sleep working on this laptop?

Thanks,
Will

On 27 January 2011 06:54, Roman Groger <xalbert76@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I have Ubuntu 10.04 and installed the new kernel as suggested by this
> guy:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/19027/ubuntu-on-the-sony-vaio-vpcy-21s1e
>
> KMS works like a charm - the resolution 1366x768.
> Roman
>
>
> William Roe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just tried Natty on the VPCY21S1E and found that with various
>> kernels, the KMS graphics for the Intel chip doesn't work.
>> These are the kernels I tried:
>> vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic
>> vmlinuz-2.6.37-12-generic
>> vmlinuz-2.6.38-997-generic
>>
>> I have everything working on an Arch Linux partition. The kernel is the
>> drm-intel-next kernel branch from here:
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/drm-intel-next
>>
>> The version of that kernel (from about 9th Dec) works with KMS and native
>> resolution etc.
>>
>> I'm not sure why the kernel that comes with natty doesn't work (it's more
>> recent so should have the changes from this branch merged in).
>>
>> Also, the wireless card is disabled in Ubuntu (it's fine in Arch).
>> It is:
>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless
>> Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to fix that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Will
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