Ubuntu 10.04 nvidia 310m issues. (Vaio CW23FX)

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Sexta-feira 30 Abril 2010, Stephan Higuti escreveu:
> Hi mates,
> 
> I just bought a Vaio CW23FX, and yesterday i installed Ubuntu 10.04.
> I've got problems on boot, the screen went black, but i could see
> that it was booting, only the screen was kinda "switchd off".
> If i use nouveau.blacklist=true on boot, it works, no 3d
> acceleration, but at least i can see whats going on :), so, i tried
> to remove nouveau drivers and it didnt worked out, it loads the
> bloody nouveau every boot. Shall i install nvidia drivers?
> And i've got another issue with wireless, the light stay blinking,
> like if it was switch in and off, and when i ping any host, i've got
> some lost packs as well, but this issue comes next, i guess if i get
> the wireless driver and manually install it shall work.
> Have you guys ever seen this issue before?

I had several problems with lucid's xorg and VAIO VPCF111FB, which uses 
nvidia 310M.
Right after I installed lucid, xorg started ok using the nv driver. 
However, after I installed nvidia binaries from the repositories, X 
would not start anymore.
Nouveau would always be loaded, even if blacklisted, so I removed it.
Then I found out that the nvidia proprietary driver does not read 
correctly the EDID info for this VAIO's LCD panel, so X would not start. 
I had to restore Windows, save the EDID info in a raw file from there 
and then reinstall lucid and reference the edid file in xorg.conf. This 
was still in Lucid Alpha 2, something may have changed since then.
Now I have it working fine.

[]'s
Marcelo