Re: Toshiba Tecra?

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 16:33, Richard Steffens wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with a Toshiba Tecra laptop? A friend of 
> mine has one (with Win98SE installed) and I'm trying to help him get 
> some things working. I'd like to try one of the Linux CD distros in it, 
> but the CD tray won't open! Also, when I turn it on, it goes right to a 
> Winders boot screen without providing the option to look at BIOS 
> settings. I tried the Toshiba web site, but it was less than helpful.
> 
> Any suggestions, other than tying an anchor line to it and putting it to 
> a better use?

Toshiba's are nice...and a pain.

I have one that I keep around to open windows specific files.  It's an
8100.  The CDRom drive has failed on it as well (guess I won't be
converting it to linux anytime soon).

I also remember having to download a specific display driver for windows
to display in other than 800x600 (Yamaha DS-XG Launcher).  Surprised me
since windows was supposed to have everything.

Doubt this helps much, but it sounds like you have a typical old laptop.

Kevin Williams
www.tarity.com