[tlinux-users:07685] Re: ACPI on Satellite L20-121, desperate...

Thank you Manuel and the others guys who responded and tried to help. 
This was useless, though. On the toshutil site 
(http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/) I found this sentence, which I had 
omitted in the first place:

"These models sport Pheonix BIOS'es and are made in that part of China 
that is not part of China. In short they are not /true/ Toshiba laptops 
and are unlikely to ever be supported by the Toshiba Linux Utilities."

This is my university's laptop, I had no influence on purchasing it. The 
preinstalled Windows xp home on the other partition works, perhaps 
because of plenty of Toshiba software running in the background.

Best wishes and thank you again,

Piotr
Poland - the Solidarity country


Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> Try Mandriva (toshiba laptop support is great).
> Report why you have to boot with acpi=off to distributions as a bug 
> (you shouldn't need to do that).
> Report the ethernet issue to distributions as a bug (it should work).
> Use NVIDIA/ATI Linux drivers (NVIDIA supports cloning the image of the 
> tft on the projector).
> Use fnfxd (however, many fn+fx keys won't still work).
>
> Blame Toshiba. Blame NVIDIA. Blame ATI.
>
> I hope it helps. I completely understand your frustration.
>
> Next time, I would recommend testing the laptop with a knoppix cd 
> before buying. I will certainly do it for the next one.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Manuel.
>
>
> Piotr Blaszczyk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm desperate on getting my new Toshiba Satellite L20-121 to fully 
>> work under linux. Tried all main distros: Knoppix, FC4, Ubuntu, Suse 
>> 10.0. I have to boot with "acpi=off" or I have no ethernet and a 
>> sluggish, jerky cursor on the screen.
>>
>> The main problems are: no FN+FX keys work, no battery status control, 
>> no system poweroff (have to switch off manually).
>>
>> I recently upgraded BIOS to 1.4. No progress.
>>
>> I'm a teacher and I must have linux on this laptop to demonstrate the 
>> system to my students using a projector. I can send signal to the 
>> projector, by my tft stays black then.
>>
>> Please kindly help.
>>
>> plaszczyk
>>
>>
>
>        
> ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a 
> cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y m�viles desde 1 c�ntimo por 
> minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com
>
>
>
>