On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> It's not an X problem - the screen is black immediately upon loading the
> kernel.
> 
> But I guess you knew that and you're just after display info:
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/Xorg.0.log.txt

Thanks, the X log told me your VBE version. I tried to reproduce it on my 
thinkpad which seems to have a very similar video setup to no avail, Could 
you test the following on the VAIO? If this isn't the case, i suspect i'm 
corrupting your modelist.

P.s. Thanks for the vga=0x263!

Index: linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 video.S
--- linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S     15 Feb 2007 17:35:57 -0000      
1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S     16 Feb 2007 12:58:20 -0000
@@ -1945,6 +1945,25 @@ store_edid:
        rep
        stosl
 
+       pushw   %es
+       pushw   %ds
+       popw    %es
+       leaw    modelist+1024, %di
+       movw    $0x02b3, %ax
+       movw    %ax, (%di)
+       movw    $0x9d4a, %ax
+       movw    %ax, 2(%di)                     # set signature to "vbe2"
+
+       movw    $0x4f00, %ax
+       int     $0x10
+       popw    %es
+
+       cmpw    $0x004f, %ax
+       jne     no_edid
+
+       cmpw    $0x0200, 4(%di)                 # only do EDID on >= VBE2.0
+       jl      no_edid
+
        pushw   %es                             # save ES
        xorw    %di, %di                        # Report Capability
        pushw   %di
Index: linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 video.S
--- linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S   15 Feb 2007 17:36:18 -0000      
1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S   16 Feb 2007 12:57:57 -0000
@@ -1945,6 +1945,25 @@ store_edid:
        rep
        stosl
 
+       pushw   %es
+       pushw   %ds
+       popw    %es
+       leaw    modelist+1024, %di
+       movw    $0x02b3, %ax
+       movw    %ax, (%di)
+       movw    $0x9d4a, %ax
+       movw    %ax, 2(%di)                     # set signature to "vbe2"
+
+       movw    $0x4f00, %ax
+       int     $0x10
+       popw    %es
+
+       cmpw    $0x004f, %ax
+       jne     no_edid
+
+       cmpw    $0x0200, 4(%di)                 # only do EDID on >= VBE2.0
+       jl      no_edid
+
        pushw   %es                             # save ES
        xorw    %di, %di                        # Report Capability
        pushw   %di
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