Re: Toshiba Laptop

On 1/2/06, Jared Woodbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/2/06, Robert Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So are there any known issues with modern Toshiba laptops and modern Linux distros?
>
> I'm running Kubuntu (Breezy) on my Toshiba 2410 (P4M 1.8ghz/512mb ram).
> GPU: is nVidia, works perfectly with X.Org 'nv' driver, works with
> offical 'nvidia' driver, but xorg.conf needs a couple of special
> settings.
> Modem: is some sort of winmodem. Was able to get it working back on
> Yoper, no longer these days.
> SD Card reader: completly software controlled AFAIK, wont work on
> Linux _at_all_.
> Wifi, Ethernet, Paralell, USB, Firewire, and everything else: works fine.

I'm currently running Gentoo on a Toshiba P20. I've also got Ubunut
installed, and at one time had Fedora, Madriva, SUSE, and off the CD -
Knoppix. My experiences are similar to Jared. I too have an nVidia
card, did have the modem working once (but broadband made me lazy),
but I've never had any reason to get the SD reader to work.

Some useful sites I would suggest you look at are:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html
http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba.html
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm
http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/

If you're after my experiences, please feel free to e-mail me off list
and I'll send you a link to my page...

Overall, I don't think you'd find there's much of a problem with
getting Linux to work these days...

Good luck,

...Ric
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