Re: The Garbled screen issue on Sony laptops with two graphics (Intel and Nvidia)

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:23AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:08:47PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> 
> > - some models have different magic numbers for the _DSM invocation, from
> >   the DSDT I have available:
> > 	DSDT.sz.xxx.dsl (some uknown model)
> > 	DSDT.sz61mn-forXP.dsl
> > 	DSDT.tt11lnb.dsl
> > 	DSDT.z11vn.dsl
> > 	DSDT.z90s.dsl
> > 	VGN-SZ4XWNC-R0111N0.dsl
> >   and for what I can see, z and tt have the same magic numbers while the
> >   sz has different ones. So the code that calls _DSM will need to have
> >   some DMI switch to make sure we are calling it with the right
> >   parameters (for now supporting z and tt might be enough)
> 
> _DSM is "Device Specific Method". The magic numbers it requires are 
> interface descriptions. How many of these machines have nvidia-based 
> dual GPU architectures?

SZ and Z have dual GPUs (Intel onboard + NVidia), TT doesn't.

>                         Are the _DSM methods always attached to the 
> nvidia device?

As far as I can see the Z is the only one having it attached to the
nvidia device.
You can have a look at the DSDTs here:
http://www.kamineko.org/dsdt-vaio/

-- 
mattia
:wq!
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