Talk:HARDWARE Toshiba Satellite M105

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[edit] Toshiba A100 Similarities

Not really sure of the protocol to this or any wiki's, so I guess I'll post this here as its related to the Satellite M105

I bought a Toshiba Satellite A100 (no, nowhere near the specs of the same one in the wiki, closer to this one)

CPU Centrino Duo 1.66 Ram 1gb GFX Nvidia 7300 Go Mobo Chipset ICH7 HDD Sata 120gb


The thing I wanted to mention was that the ICH7 chipset on this board did not like the latest stable gentoo kernel, it would prompt me with unable to load VFS blah blah whatever. Upgrading to 2.6.20 from kernel.org sources fixed this problem completely. Just thought i'd mention this for the better of humanity (well... gentoo)

[EDIT] I also came across this error while working on a friends A100 with 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 adding, hda=none to the kernel boot options fixed the issue for me.--Mistik1 05:36, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Anyways, thanks heaps to the author of this page etc, just my 2c...

Always good to know my little contribution to the world of Gentoo helped someone :) Please continue to make comments as I know this page is getting rather out of date. -- Ikeapimp 09:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspend Woes

About 6 months ago, rebuilt my machine using 2007.0 and I have not been able to successfully suspend to RAM since. Not sure what the problem is, but I'll continue to hack as I have time and report progress here.

I suspect the difference between the original install I documented here (2006.?) and my present install is either a udev problem or a module loading/unloading issue. I'm planning to buy a 'parts' machine off e-bay shortly (my screen wiring harness is getting flaky) and I may take a stab at installing 2008.0 on the spare HD to see if a clean install can make my life easier.

-- Ikeapimp 09:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Making the Alps Touchpad act more like its Synaptics big brother

Back when I got this laptop, I was rather envious that my wife could do a 2-finger scroll on her Macbook's greatly superior Synaptics touchpad and my measly Alps touchpad couldn't.

So what did I do? I got creative! I hacked the synaptics touchpad driver source to emulate a 2-finger press based on Z-pressure. I sent the patch to the owner of the driver (Peter Osterlund) and he was kind enough to integrate it as a stock part of the driver.

Code: My Synaptics Manpage Contribution 
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ (Integer)
    For touchpads not capable of detecting multiple fingers (Alps), this sets the
    Z pressure threshold to emulate a two finger press.

That was back in Dec 2006, and the it still hasn't made it into the Portage tree, so if you want this coolio feature, you'll have to compile the latest sources from the Git repository. You can find the latest sources at Synaptics TouchPad Driver Homepage, or you can grab them via Git with this command:

Code: Don't expect me to teach you how to use Git :/ 
git clone http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/synaptics/.git

Once you've compiled and installed the driver, add this to your xorg.conf touchpad section:

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"TouchPad"
	Driver		"synaptics"

	# ... yadda, yadda, yadda ...

	# --- Alps/Synaptics fake-out ---
	Option	"EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"		"90"     # I use this value rather successfully
	Option	"VertTwoFingerScroll"		"true"
	Option	"HorizTwoFingerScroll"		"false"  # or "true", if you prefer
EndSection

Enjoy -- Ikeapimp 10:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Don't use the X11 i810 v.2.2.0.90 video driver

It's ugly slow! Mask it out here to roll back to the previous stable version (2.1.1):

File: /etc/portage/package.mask 
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.2.0.90

Update this page when the v2.2 series is running well again.

-- Ikeapimp 10:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kernel 2.6.24

Note: Talk here about things relating to the 2.6.24 kernel

[edit] iwl vs. ipw

Woohoo! The wireless card is finally a stock part of the kernel! I forget the exact setting, but if you genkernel --menuconfig --oldconfig all and search for, "iwl", you'll find it in a jiffy.

You will need to emerge -uDN net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode and make sure the old ipw modules don't load. Also pay attention to any other warnings thrown in dmesg (i.e. the usual advice).

(note to self or anyone else with time: document this better!)

-- Ikeapimp 10:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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