YEAHHH!
Yesterday in the morning I got my new notebook – it’s a nice Sony Z 11 :). That one includes an i5, nvidia 330M, 6Gb memory, and 192Gb SSD (three with 64Gb).
First thing i did was to remove the includes windows 7. Next step was to install the current kubuntu 10.04 – that part was a bit troublesome but it’s working by now. Here a small howto to get it running (thanks to Frederik Questier):
- Download the current Kubuntu alternate installer and burn it to a cd or create a bootable usb stick with the “usb-creator-kde”
- goto the bios and enable “show raid information”
- reboot the system and remove the raid
- start the setup (setup your partitions as you like)
- when you try to boot your system change the grub commandline from “quiet splash” to “nomodeset i8042.nopnp” (as far as i know to deactivate the intel graphics and enable the touchpad)
edit: nomodset is not to deactivate the intel graphics but to prevent black screens. - add the repositories:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/pre-proposed/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/pre-proposed/ubuntu karmic main
and install an older kernel with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-20-generic - Kill the current X Server to install the latest Nvidia Driver. Download it from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
- Update the Grub 2 Settings (/etc/defaults/grub) and change the line to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”nomodeset i8042.nopnp”
- You can also change the GRUB_DEFAULT to (for me it was 4) the right entry of your 2.6.31.20 Kernel
- Update the grub configuration with update-grub
Thats it for me 🙂
Now i have a running System including: Full HD Resulution + VGA (haven’t tested HDMI yet), Sound, CD/DVD Drive, WLan, LAN and Backlight of the Keyboard 🙂
Michael Schramm 