Re: VT disabled on Sony Vaio...

[Dan Kenigsberg <danken-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:18:08PM +0200, Dor Laor wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 17:59 +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
> > Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >    I've got a Vaio VGN-SZ1VP_C. As you can read here¹, Sony disabled
> > > VT (and AHCI) by BIOS. So, when I try to load KVM module I've got:
> > > kvm: disabled by bios
> > >    Is it possible to ignore BIOS settings (without hacking with hardware)?
> > >   
> > 
> 
> Usually a power off is needed to get the bios updated with the new
> settings. Try even to remove the battery and restart it, most chances it
> will work.

But that's only true if the bios has a way to change the setting.
According to ¹, and more precisely², this is not the case.

¹ http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189228
² http://www.iq.sony.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=CISCV3,Company={46BFA530-E01F-4F7C-B98B-69C2AA06051B},Case=Obj(381809),TS=externalv4,T=case.tem,VARSET_MODELNUM=,VARSET_OBJ=381809,VARSET_TOP=TRUE,workstage=all,question=ref(QC):ord(1),question=ref(QB):ord(1)
³ cool superscript!

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