This document describes experiences with
running Linux on
a
Toshiba
Satellite Pro
6100
Model PS610E-JLTU0-EN
This page was started the day before the machine was due to arrive,
and is developing.
As soon as they are working sufficiently, they will be given to their users,
so I will no longer have access to the machines
(unless they happen to be on the internet, which is rare).
In particular, one has to go to Australia in 3 days time ...
The nearest existing match in
Linux on laptops
I found was a
6000
but I also found
gasperino
and
rwh.
linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp
lead me to
Mandrake 8.0 XF86Config,
Cipher Brain
(early version)
and
jeremythompson's
RH
7.3
8.0
and
9
This report is listed at
TuxMobil - Linux on laptops, notebooks, PDAs and mobile phones
under
Toshiba
The 6100 has a range of models from a 1GHz Celeron to a 2GHz Mobile P4,
1024x768 to 1600x1200.
- CPU: Ours is a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.0GHz
with a 400 MHz bus and 512KB Level 2 cache.
- Memory: It come with a single 256MB PC2100/DDR RAM SODIMM by default,
with an empty slot, allowing 2*512MB by removing the 256MB.
We bought two 3rd Party 512MB SODIMMs for just over a quarter the price of the Toshiba memory,
and made one machine 512MB and the other 1GB.
- Disk:
It has a Toshiba MK6021GAS 60GBi disk,
an external USB floppy (0644/0000 TEAC/TEAC FD-05PUB),
and an internal 8*DVD, 24*CD, 8*CD-R, 8*CD-RW swapabble drive.
- Graphics:
nVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go,
66MHz x4 AGP Bus,
with 32MB DDR VRAM,
with a 15.0" ASV 1600 x 1200 display.
- pointing device:
It has the usual Toshiba AccuPoint II, but as well as the normal 2 buttons,
it also has two small `scroll' buttons.
- Card Slots:
It has two typeII Cardbus slots, which can take a single typeIII PC card.
It has a built in Lucent ORiNOCO WiFi and
SCORPIO
V.90 56k Winmodem.
- Size:
It measures 330x289x37.1 and weights 3.1Kg.
- SelectBay:
It has a SelectBay which comes with a CD/DVD or CD-RW/DVD.
It can also take a carrier for a second disk,
or a carrier for a second battery (expensive, but may be necessary!).
- Battery:
They claim up to 2.1 hours for the standard battery.
It's a bit off a duffer ...
It charges at about 1% per 5-6 mins up to 94%, then jumps to 100%.
It discharges at about 1% per 1-2 mins.
A new battery flattens out at 3% for around 20 minutes,
drops to 2 for two minutes, then dies.
jeremythompson
- HDD_Int: Intel ICH3-M
- Sound: AC 97 (YAMAHA YMF753)
- VGA: nVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
- IrDA: Super IO SMSC LPC47N227 Not Tried
- USB: Intel ICH3-M
- CD_Int: Intel ICH3-M
- PCMCIA: Toshiba ToPIC100 (Intel 82365 comp)
- Bluetooth: TAIYO-YUDEN Not Tried
- APM: V1.2
- Mouse: PS2
- ACPI: V1.0b
- Chipset: Intel 845MP
- Network: Intel 82562EM (Kinnereth 10/100)
- Docking_Station: PR 2K1 Not Tried
- Basic_Info: Info
- Mini_PCI: Texas Instruments PCI 1410
- SD_Card: Toshiba SD TypA Not Tried
On both machines, the cover flap for the VGA/parallel/phone/UTP/serial sockets
was detactched, hising at the back of the shrink wrap plastic.
It complained:
**** Bad RTC battery ****
**** Bad check sum (CMOS) ****
Check system. Then press [F1] key.
Pressed F1, then END, then Y, and it was happy.
Connected USB floppy and insert PM 8.0 disk one.
Powered on, pressed U when the red Toshiba welcome appeared
(or hold down F12 and 3* RIGHT) to select USB floppy boot.
Changed to disk 2 as requested.
PowerQuest Partition Magic has detected error 116 on the partition starting at sector 58621185 on disk 1.
The starting LBA value is 58621185 and the CHS value is 16434494.
The LBA and CHS values must be equal.
PowerQuest PartitionMagic has verified that teh LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value.
Would you like PowerQuest PartiyionMagic to fix this error?
Either Yes or No is OK - about to delete it anyway.
Delete logical partition and extended partition.
Left first C: FAT partition at 7.8MB (this becomes free space when firs booted).
Reduced the second FAT32 partition to "4000" MB (4096575 blocks, 510 cyl).
Inserted 7.2 boot floppy, and booted.
Selected "2 Button Mouse (PS/2)".
Saw the floppy as sda - ignore it.
Set up hda3 as 894-1024 (1GB), hda4 as extended partition, and hda5 as 1GB swap.
Graphics needed manual configuration.
`lspci' knows about few devices.
Inserted 8.0 boot floppy, and booted.
Selected "2 Button Mouse (PS/2)".
Saw the floppy as sda - ignore it.
`basic' custom package install took 5m10s.
It auto-selected `NVIDIA GeForce 4(generic)'
(manually selected 1600x1200),
but uses the vesa driver.
It didn't ask where to put the GrUB block - seems to ZAP the MBR.
`lspci' knows about all the devices.
Botted a Live CD, NFS mounted a server, and untar'ed a pre built std RH 9 image.
It even managed to write a boot floppy.
It irratically wedges when starting up the USB.
Pressing the power button (even in resume mode) causes it to reboot sucessfully.
Pre RH 9 WiFi only works with the wvlan_cs driver (old kernels), but NOT with the orinoco.
On the initial M$ boot, the user has to select whether to run WXP or W2K
(cursor keys, TAB and mouse don't work - the suer has to type 1 or 2).
This boots off hda1, but delete hda1, makes hda2 the boot partition,
and requires a couple of boots.
This means that after the first boot, GrUB should set the M$ / DOS root
partition to (hd0,1) rather than (hd0,0).
Loaded and ran the Linux nvidia `.run' file,
set `Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"'
as otherwise the EDID seems to think the max width is max 1588.
With EDID disabled, it is important to set the frequencies correctly, i.e.
`HorizSync 29-76'
and
`VertRefresh 0-60'.
Others say
that
`options NVdriver NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0'
or
`options NVdriver "NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0" "NVreg_Mobile=2"' is needed.
Use `xmodmap -e "pointer 1 5 3 4 2"' to make the small right top button
behave as the middle button.
cipherbrain XF86Config-4
Using the vesa driver at full resolution `just works'.
The recent trend for toshibas to have `bouncy keys' continues, so use
xkbset
to debounce them,
or the
AccessX
package.
Alternatively, disable the xkb extension in XF86Config, with
`Option "XkbDisable" "yes"' in the InputDevice section,
which may disrupt the use of the Alt keys.
Reloading the keyboard mapping may help, using xmodmap.
Loading the nvidia driver is non trivial - see
other
URLs.
It claims to NEED a kernel module,
and it is tied to the EXACT KERBEL BUILD you are using.
It renames libglx.a, libglcore.a and libGL.so.1.2 (in my case)
as xxx.*.
The eepr100 is an old NIC - just works.
The WiFi card `just worked' under the RH kernel which uses wvlan_cs,
but our local kernel needed tweaks to the PCMCIA config files to use orinoco_cs.
Out of the box RH 9 managed to load the driver,
but `echo x > /dev/dsp' hangs,
and realplay says says that the device is busy.
Works if ALSA is installed.
`apm -s' puts it to sleep, and power button wakes it up.
Setting boot mode to resume makes the power button make it sleep and wake up.
Having included `hdc=ide-scsi' on the kernel command line,
`cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 /file/name' works.
See
wouter
and
spierrel
scanModem
recognises Vendor 163c as being
SmartLink.
Unlike the
R100
and
Satellite 1410
it doesn't `just work'.
Needs more investigation.
See
jeremythompson
Piete Brooks
2005-05-02
