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[Jorge Maroto <jmaroto@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running natty with 2.6.37rc8 and everything is working. You can
get it from here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.37-rc8-natty/

However it seems like they put a regresion in 2.6.38. I hope it will be solved.

Cheers,
Jorge

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:11 AM, William Roe <willroe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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