From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Confusion over W98 drivers for 100CT
Okay... it looks like I've got most everything set up and running pretty smoothly on this L100. After reading Lee’s comments, I went back and re-installed the latest BIOS to make sure my messing around trying to load 'APM tp ACPI' didn't mess that up. And then I went for the Win98SE installation that went in purring. This time I used the right sound drivers for the 100CT that I found listed with the 50CT drivers on the ToshUSA site, and sound recording works fine now.
I've ghosted the first, very raw OS installation with just video, sound, and FDD drivers... and then another with most of the other basic things I usually use.
But I still haven't loaded the Toshiba Utilities, and the power saver Win98 'update' which Lee has warned must be loaded >after< the Tosh Utilities, and the fast IR drivers.
So here's my question at this point: What's the best method is of installing the Tosh Utilites... which are referred to as 'Toshiba Controls' on the ToshUSA support page, as well as the file name l100ctrl.exe. The readme says to go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Windows Setup tab, click 'Have Disk', and navigate to the folder with the files extracted from the l100ctrl.exe archive.
I notice that the l100ctrl.exe file is a self extracting zip file that automatically installs its contents. So that's a second method of installing the drivers not covered in the readme.
I guess both methods are probably safe, but at this point, I thought I'd just ask and make sure people haven't found problems with one method or the other.
After this, I'll make my last ghost backup and be able to restore the setup at 3 points of the process. At this point I've got a bunch of my most frequently used software set up .
Thanks folks!
Matt
PS: The CF PC card reader seems to be working most of the time now. But I notice it’s slower to be recognized than it is on my L70 w/W98. And if I have a bunch of apps running on the L100, it will still freeze on occasion when I pull the reader out.
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Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Confusion over W98 drivers for 100CT
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 07:14:30 -0700
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:08:27 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] Confusion over W98 drivers for 100CT
In a message dated 10/26/02 1:03:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >It is just two simple things... a .vxd and a power save profile, which
> >basically tells Win98 to leave the machine in "always on" like mode...
> > >never do anything.
>
> So it sound like I can skip this altogether... right?
I don't think so. Though the W98 Power Saver Tosh upgrade does what Pres
says, that profile is needed in the W98 Power Management program. And, I
believe you must enable hibernation and set the lid and power button
functions in Power Management for those to work properly under W98.
>
> >You ALSO want the hairy light bulb. That allows differing screen
brightness
>
> >and processor speed, as well as different suspend/hibernate for lid
closing
>
> >options based on battery or A/C, things that Win98's power management do
> >not address.
> >
> >These are things that took me a long time to figure out. There was one
> >other thing I wanted to mention, but it just slipped my mind. I will
write
> >in again if it comes back.
>
> Okay... so the hairy bulb is part of either the acessory or control
drivers,
>
> probably 'control' as Lee pointed out. And one or the other are all I
> really need to get the hairy bulb power utility.
Yes, just W95 Controls. As I said - it must be loaded and set up BEFORE
installing the Power Saver W98 upgrade.
Lee
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