On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:39, Josh Helmer wrote: > Be careful with Toshiba laptops. Getting my Toshiba Satellite 5005-507S > working under linux was a big pain in the ass. I tried Redhat, Mandrake and > finally settled on gentoo before I could get it working reasonably well. > Even now, I can't use any of the gentoo kernel-sources ebuilds. Instead I > had to download clean kernel sources from kernel.org and the appropriate > patches to fix the issues (primarily ACPI, and sound. I still have this > wierd thing where I have to re-configure the touchpad for X everytime I boot > to a new kernel). > > Josh
Well thats probably true for Toshiba laptops with the funky Phoneix BIOS. But most Toshiba's I have seen with the Toshiba BIOS have had no problems. I am typing this right now on a Toshiba Satellite pro 6100 and everything works, have not used the modem since I have no use for it. I did have to use the noacpi option during the inital boot to install the system. Sound work great, all docs say it's a Yamaha sound chip when it's acualy Intel i810 (discovered with lspci -v). Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
