I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux and
in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because we
know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound card
and the modem for now as they list.
I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem regarding
"statserial" which I'll try.
Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had them
since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate <what a piece of junk that laptop
was>)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS Device
Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true sound
cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be manually
set.
There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake 6.0,
it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've been
hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How do
I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that file
located?
I apologize for being such a novice.
