Maury84 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Hi you all! During this month, I've tried (with no resutl) to make work my laptop internal display (look at signature). So I've searched a lot (Google is great, is'n it? ) but unfortunately seems there's no way (actually...) to use NVidia kext and QE/CI on VAIO internal display. At last, but not at least, seems there's no way to switch the screen resolution (recognized as 1024*768) to another one (maybe 1280*800? It could be great...). So, why this topic? Well, I'm trying to have a big topic where every VAIO user can post his experience (which result, which hardware configuration, which .iso), 'cause the information on the web are so confuses and you have to jump from a topic to another... I start: I've tried Natit, NVInstaller, Titan, changing NVCAP values...no one works for the internal display. I've ever a black screen. My hardware configuration is on my signature. During my search, I've found recentely two interesting topics. 1)use QE/CI with Intel Drivers and Video Card, only for who have a double graphic card; 2) change resolution problem for VAIO on ubuntu desktop. This can be, in my opinion, an idea. It seems that NVidia drivers doesn't work properly on some models. And to make it works, you've to edit xorg.conf¹ and change some lines...but I've found so interesting this one Option "Ignore EDID" "on" Maybe can be useful for who knows how drivers works under osx...Unfortunately, I've no experience in this, and I need some one to teach me "how" write drivers. Regards Maurizio Note: ¹ xorg is the server X Window on Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury84 Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 Hi you all again. It seems I haven't got more success with this topic, have I? Anyway, stop joking and talking about the topic title. I'm happy to say that an user with Intel GMA950 successfully use his laptop with QE/CI. So...I thought...Why? Basically, I don't think that Sony made different connectors for different VGAs. The user I'm talking about doesn't edit plist files or similar. Probably, drivers for Intel GMA works better then Nvidia. But what about the screen detection?? I hope that someone with some knowledges can have a look at this and answer me. I don't see any reason to don't work to find a solution for Vaio users with Nvidia graphic cards. Regards. Maurizio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackshore Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 This is for all VAIO+Nvidia users! Salvation on the way..hopefully.. Development is already on! Help out by contribute anything useful to the project. Project Home page: http://code.google.com/p/sonypi-macosx/ Direct to the updates: http://code.google.com/p/sonypi-macosx/updates/list Spread the word! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 It's easier to make OS X work X.org + quartz-wm and port the linux driver for X.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury84 Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 Well, after a long time, here I'm again. During these months I've searched a lot, read tons of codes samples, documentation, tutorials, problems solving and so on. As far as I understood, the SNC proprietary interface is the "biggest wall" we have to climb over. What I'd like to know is: replacing one or all monitor components (lcd display, inverter, video cable) can be useful? Actually I'm not able to find any sheet about the internal connectors of Vaio, so I don't know how much "interchangeable" the components are...so...monitor replacement (whole monitor) could it be a solution? Regards, Maurizio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanna Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Hello. I have same Sony VAIO vgn-nr21s/s I have same problem and searh drivero or resolve a problem. You have a resolve a problem???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonrie69 Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 about the display i found some info that i am checking but i need help because i am an amateur when it comes to driver/hardware... i found on nvidia's freebsd driver this line that i am checking and trying to understand, perhaps you could help me : /* * Option: Mobile * * Description: * * The Mobile registry key should only be needed on mobile systems if * SoftEDIDs is disabled (see above), in which case the mobile value * will be used to lookup the correct EDID for the mobile LCD. * * Possible Values: * * ~0 = auto detect the correct value (default) * 1 = Dell notebooks * 2 = non-Compal Toshiba * 3 = all other notebooks * 4 = Compal/Toshiba * 5 = Gateway * * Make sure to specify the correct value for your notebook. */ #define __NV_MOBILE Mobile #define NV_REG_MOBILE NV_REG_STRING(__NV_MOBILE) and with windows windbg (a debugger) i found anther info on the capabilities of the pci , here they are: PCI Configuration Space (Segment:0000 Bus:01 Device:00 Function:00) Common Header: 00: VendorID 10de Nvidia Corporation 02: DeviceID 0a75 04: Command 0007 IOSpaceEn MemSpaceEn BusInitiate 06: Status 0010 CapList 08: RevisionID a2 09: ProgIF 00 VGA 0a: SubClass 00 VGA Compatible Controller 0b: BaseClass 03 Display Controller 0c: CacheLineSize 0010 BurstDisabled 0d: LatencyTimer 00 0e: HeaderType 80 0f: BIST 00 10: BAR0 e2000000 14: BAR1 d000000c 18: BAR2 00000000 1c: BAR3 e000000c 20: BAR4 00000000 24: BAR5 0000d001 28: CBCISPtr 00000000 2c: SubSysVenID 104d 2e: SubSysID 9072 30: ROMBAR 00000000 34: CapPtr 60 3c: IntLine 10 3d: IntPin 01 3e: MinGnt 00 3f: MaxLat 00 Device Private: 40: 9072104d 00000000 00000000 00000000 50: 00000001 00000001 0023d6ce 00000000 60: 00036801 00000008 00807805 00000000 70: 00000000 00000000 0002b410 012c8de0 80: 00002910 00052d02 1101014b 00000000 90: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 a0: 00000000 00000000 00000002 00000000 b0: 00000000 01140009 00000000 00000000 c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 d0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 e0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Capabilities: 60: CapID 01 PwrMgmt Capability 61: NextPtr 68 62: PwrMgmtCap 0003 Version=3 64: PwrMgmtCtrl 0008 DataScale:0 DataSel:0 D0 68: CapID 05 MSI Capability 69: NextPtr 78 6a: MsgCtrl 64BitCapable MultipleMsgEnable:0 (0x1) MultipleMsgCapable:0 (0x1) 6c: MsgAddr 0 70: MsgAddrHi 0 74: MsData 0 78: CapID 10 PCI Express Capability 79: NextPtr b4 7a: Express Caps 0002 Type:Endpoint 7c: Device Caps 012c8de0 80: Device Control 2910 MRR:512 NS ap pf ET MP:128 RO ur fe nf ce 82: Device Status 0000 tp ap ur fe nf ce 84: Link Caps 00052d02 88: Link Control 014b es CC rl ld RCB:128 ASPM:L0s&L1 8a: Link Status 1101 SCC lt lte NLW:x16 LS:2.5 b4: CapID 09 Vendor Specific Capability b5: NextPtr 00 Enhanced Capabilities: 100: CapID 0002 Virtual Channel Capability Version 1 NextPtr 128 128: CapID 0004 Power Budgeting Capability Version 1 NextPtr 600 600: CapID 000b Unknown Capability Version 1 NextPtr 000 is posible that the capabilities have something to do with the display issue ?? or perhpas that registry call MOBILE??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmopro Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 There is any fix for that ? i have a Vaio VPCS13V9E with a Nvidia 310M only (No switch) and when i activate GraphicsEnabler, i get a black screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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