Toshiba Satellite M105
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[edit] Introduction
This is a reference/guide for installing Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite M105.
From what I learned while compiling this information, it is very similar to the Toshiba Satellite M100. The new Lenovo and Dell laptops (circa July 2006) also use similar technology. Check the hardware specs and take whatever is useful.
Thanks for all the fish --Ikeapimp 12:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Status
- July 11, 2006: This page is now ready for contributions. Edit at will!
- July 17, 2006: A major rework of the make.conf
- July 27, 2006:
- Added sections in the xorg.conf sections and references for custom touchpad configuration.
- Rewrote the ACPI section adding lots of suspend-to-ram goodness.
[edit] Disclaimer
I'm a programmer, not an systems administrator. I'm sure that there are many things in this document are less than optimal or outright wrong. I have no personal attachment to these things, so feel free to correct me.
Just try to leave some of my witty comments in tact. At least I think they're witty. They're likely not. It's rather sad that this is how I entertain myself.
[edit] Hardware
[edit] Specs
The following is a highly abridged summary of Toshiba's specs:
- Model: Toshiba Satellite M105-S3004
- CPU: Intel Core Duo Processor T2300, 1.66GHz, 2MB L2, 667MHz FSB
- Chipset: Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset
- Memory: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM (4GB Max; PC4200 533MHz or PC5300 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
- Hard Drive: 100GB 5400RPM SATA 9.5mm HD
- Screen: 14.1" widescreen TruBrite TFT active-matrix LCD, 1280x800 (WXGA)
- Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, 8MB-128MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
- Audio: Intel High Definition Audio
- BIOS: ACPI, PNP, VESA, DPMS, DDC, SM BIOS, PCI BIOS support
- Network/Modem:
- Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g)
- Intel PRO/1000 VE (Gigabit Ethernet)
- Toshiba V.92 software modem
- Additional Ports:
- RGB (monitor) out (15-pin), S-Video out (Mini-DIN)
- Microphone in, Headphone out
- IEEE-1394 (i.LINK, a.k.a. FireWire), USB v2.0 (4 ports)
- 1 PC Card slot: Type II, PCMCIA R2.01, PC Card16, CardBus
- 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter: Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Multi Media Card, xD Picture Card
- CD/DVD: SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive
- CD-ROM/CD-R 24x, CD-RW 10x
- DVD-ROM 8x, DVD-RW 4x, DVD+RW 4x, DVD-RAM 5x
- DVD-R Single 8x, Double 2x
- DVD+R Single 8x, Double 2.4x
- Controls:
- 85 key US keyboard, 2 button TouchPad, Fingerprint Reader
- Control Panel: Power, Internet, CD/DVD control
- Front Edge: Volume control wheel, Wireless kill switch
- Size/Weight:
- 13.5 x 9.53 x 1.50 (WxDxH, in), 343.0 x 242.0 x 38.0 (WxDxH, mm)
- 5.42 lbs (2.46 kg)
- Other: Toshiba Express Media Player
[edit] Personal Observations About the Hardware
- Installing Gentoo on this system leaves the Toshiba Express Media Player in tact.
- The keyboard layout is a bit funky (I'll include a picture eventually, go to the Toshiba site in the mean time):
- Tilde/Backquote, Insert and Delete beside the spacebar (can get used to that)
- Windows and Menu keys in the top right corner (great for custom mapping)
- No right Control Key (instructions for mapping the Alt key to a Control key later in doc)
- Touchpad is centered on the notebook, not the keyboard. It lines up slightly right-of-center of the 'H' key when it ought to land square in between the 'G' and the 'H'. (Toshiba, are you listening?)
- No scrolling function on the touchpad, although I'll post a meta sequence to get around that when I figure it out.
- Note (Jul 17/06): I recently found out that the last comment may not be correct. A friend reported that the touch pad on this laptop may work with the Synaptics driver to give all kinds of cool features. I'll update this page when I know more.
- Note (Oct 26/06): I have the same computer running under ubuntu 6.06 and the scroll works fine.
[edit] Processor
The system is equipped with an Intel Centrino Duo 1.66 GHz processor (that's a dual-core processor for those not paying attention). The listing below shows the first processor. The second is identical except for the 1st line:
| File: /proc/cpuinfo |
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 14 model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1667.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr bogomips : 3329.53 |
[edit] lspci
| Code: Output of lspci |
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 05:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 05:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Unknown device 803a 05:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 05:06.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803c |
[edit] Installation Uber-QuickRef
This sections does not cover the (sometimes painful) details of installation, but rather it is a high level overview focusing on specific tweeks for this particular notebook. For full instructions on installing Gentoo, see The Gentoo Documentation Resources page.
[edit] Getting Started
- Grab a copy of the Gentoo Live CD.
- Run the graphical installer. (The next parts may be a bit out of order. I'd appreciate if someone could confirm)
- When asked, turf the Windoze partitions and use the default Gentoo layout. I prefer to make the main partition ReiserFS. It speeds up portage noticably.
- Make your life easy and install the binaries from the LiveCD. These instructions tell you to switch to the ~x86 branch later anyhow.
- Follow through on the install and reboot on the HD.
You should now have a working Gentoo system with a hardwired network connection.
[edit] Your New make.conf
Start by editing your /etc/make.conf. Below is the one I'm currently using. You may want to remove things like the 'offensive' flag (I'm not easilly offended), and add flags for things I've trimmed out (like PHP). On the other hand you can just leave it as-is and deal with those details later.
| File: /etc/make.conf |
# The Basics
USE="
X aalib acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt
cups curl doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd ethereal examples expat fam
fbcon foomaticdb gdbm glut gmp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn ieee1394
imlib lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors mozilla mplayer nas ncurses
nis nls nptl odbc opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre perl postgres ppds python
readline samba sdl slang slp spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd threads truetype
ulibc unicode usb v4l vhosts wmf xine xinerama xml xmms xv zlib
"
# Codecs and Stuff
USE="$USE
a52 aac asf dts dv ffmpeg flac gif jpeg jpeg2k mad mikmod mng mp3 mpeg ogg
png quicktime speex theora tiff vcd vorbis win32codecs xvid
"
# Interesting and Experimental Stuff
USE="$USE
dga directfb lirc nsplugin offensive shorten
"
# Stuff that may be important
USE="$USE
elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86
"
# Local Use Flags
USE="$USE
bitmap-fonts mjpeg nptlonly pmu rar real subtitles truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev
"
# Device and language tweaks
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics"
VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 i940 intel"
LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US utf8"
# Compile flags for the Duo (I think I got them right)
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
# Gentoo recommends -j3, but I like to push things
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
# My personal feature preferences (apparently ccache helps too)
FEATURES="sandbox distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch"
# only wait 2 seconds for package replacement rather then the usual 5 seconds
CLEAN_DELAY=2
# Use the unstable branch (my preference)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
# The normal fetch location
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Now that we have a happy make.conf, we sync:
| Code: The Big Sync |
emerge --sync |
This will take a while. Go get some coffee.
[edit] A Shiny New Kernel
Next we need to build ourselves the latest kernel. The kernel at the time of this writing (linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r2) does not yet have the correct wireless drivers, so specific configs and steps are needed to get them integrated. It took me a couple of evenings to get this working, so it may be best to learn from my pain. I verified this to work with kernels 2.6.17 through 2.6.17r2.
Get a fresh kernel source tree and the following:
| Code: Building the Kernel |
# Emerge the latest kernel stuff emerge -uDN genkernel gentoo-sources # Create a symlink to the new kernel (adjust as necessary) cd /usr/src rm -f linux ln -s linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r2/ linux # Build the kernel with the options below genkernel --menuconfig all |
Here's the kernel config options you want to make sure to set:
| Linux Kernel Configuration: The Important Options |
Processor type and features --->
[*] Symmetric multi-processing support
Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible) --->
Processor family (Pentium M) --->
[ ] Generic x86 support
[*] HPET Timer Support
(2) Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)
Preemption Model (Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)) --->
< > Toshiba Laptop support ''(Note: You'd think you want this, but nooooo!)''
< > Dell laptop support
[*] Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)
''(Note: Needed for ACPI Sleep States)''
Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support --->
[*] ACPI Support
[*] Sleep States
<*> AC Adapter
<*> Battery
<*> Button
<*> Video
< > Generic Hotkey (EXPERIMENTAL)
<*> Fan
<*> Processor
<*> Thermal Zone
< > ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras
< > IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras
< > Toshiba Laptop Extras
(0) Disable ACPI for systems before Jan 1st this year
[ ] Debug Statements
[*] Power Management Timer Support
<*> ACPI0004,PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 Container Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
''(Note: May be automatically selected - check the help)''
APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support --->
< > APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support
CPU Frequency scaling --->
[*] CPU Frequency scaling
[ ] Enable CPUfreq debugging
<*> CPU frequency translation statistics
[*] CPU frequency translation statistics details
Default CPUFreq governor (performance) --->
--- 'performance' governor
<*> 'powersave' governor
<*> 'userspace' governor for userspace frequency scaling
<*> 'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor
<*> 'conservative' cpufreq governor
--- CPUFreq processor drivers
<*> ACPI Processor P-States driver
< > AMD Mobile K6-2/K6-3 PowerNow!
< > AMD Mobile Athlon/Duron PowerNow!
< > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!
< > Cyrix MediaGX/NatSemi Geode Suspend Modulation
<*> Intel Enhanced SpeedStep
[*] Use ACPI tables to decode valid frequency/voltage pairs
[ ] Built-in tables for Banias CPUs
<*> Intel Speedstep on ICH-M chipsets (ioport interface)
< > Intel SpeedStep on 440BX/ZX/MX chipsets (SMI interface)
< > Intel Pentium 4 clock modulation
< > nVidia nForce2 FSB changing
< > Transmeta LongRun
Device Drivers --->
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --->
<M> IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
<M> Texas Instruments PCILynx support ''(Note: I'm only guessing here)''
Input device support --->
<*> Event interface ''(Note: For touchpad configuration)''
Network device support --->
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) --->
[*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
''(Note: De-select everything in this section except this entry)''
Graphics support --->
<*> Support for frame buffer devices
<*> VESA VGA graphics support
VESA driver type (vesafb) --->
LED devices ---> ''(Note: Play with these, not sure if they do anything)''
Networking ---> ''(Note: Make sure to do this last)''
--- Networking support
<M> Bluetooth subsystem support --->
< > Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
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Let the kernel build, and edit grub.conf while you're waiting.
| Code: Editing Grub |
# Configure Grub vi /boot/grub/grub.conf |
Add the following lines to your grub.conf (substitute kernel name as needed).
| File: /boot/grub/grub.conf |
title GNU/Linux 2.6.17r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3,1280x800-16 vga=791 splash=silent initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r2 |
Once your kernel is built, DON'T REBOOT! Not yet. Let's get the wireless drivers in place first.
[edit] Installing Wireless Drivers
See this guide.
Now, it's time to reboot:
# init 6
[edit] The Big Emerge
Now, update your whole system. This will take a while. While we're at it, we'll also add a few useful packages to the mix.
| Code: The Big Merge |
emerge -uDN system emerge -uDN world emerge -uDN acpitool acpi acpid cpufrequtils hibernate-script wireless-tools xf86-video-i810 |
[edit] Xorg
See this HowTo.
I'm not going to detail the steps of installing X (there's plenty of documentation on that elsewhere), but I will give you my xorg.conf. It's not perfect, but it works.
| File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "IkeaPimp's Configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cheapskatefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/dejavu"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-fix"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sgi-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse2"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
Option "Protocol" "event"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# --- Speed and Acceleration ---
Option "MinSpeed" "0.60"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.10"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.025"
# --- TouchPad Size ---
Option "LeftEdge" "40"
Option "RightEdge" "900"
Option "TopEdge" "40"
Option "BottomEdge" "640"
# --- TouchPad Edge Button Emulation ---
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "LBCornerButton" "0"
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "2"
# --- Scrolling ---
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
# --- Tapping ---
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
# You way want to adust this. It works for me using e16
DisplaySize 427 267
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "SWcursor" "false"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Note that I haven't tried the dual-head thing or the SVideo out yet. If you have time and insight, please contribute.
(July 27): Added new sections to the above xorg.conf to take advantage of the Alps GlidePoint Touchpad. This includes edge-scrolling and button-2 tapping in the bottom right corner.
[edit] Misc Other Tweaks
[edit] ACPI
So far, I've only tweaked ACPI a little bit, but a little bit makes a big difference.
[edit] Slowing the CPU
This laptop has a lot of processing power - much more than I need in my day-to-day tasks. I prefer to run it in 'conservative' mode 'cause it makes a difference on both battery life and temperature.
When I run cpufreq-info, I get the following:
| Code: Output of cpufreq-info |
cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
Report errors and bugs to linux@brodo.de, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: centrino
CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0
hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 1.67 GHz
available frequency steps: 1.67 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1000 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1.67 GHz.
The governor "conservative" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1000 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
analyzing CPU 1:
driver: centrino
CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 1
hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 1.67 GHz
available frequency steps: 1.67 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1000 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1.67 GHz.
The governor "conservative" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1000 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
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You can see the various power modes in the output. Choose the one that best suits you.
For my own convienience, I wrote a little script that I run when I first log in. I ought to put this in a start script somewhere, but I just havn't gotten around to it.
| File: ~/bin/slowCPU |
#!/bin/bash if [ "$EUID" != 0 ]; then sudo $0; exit; fi # --- slow down the cpu --- /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 0 --governor conservative /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 1 --governor conservative |
[edit] Suspend to RAM
My preference when suspending the machine (a.k.a. hibernate, sleep, standby), is to drop to the S3 state: Hibernate to RAM. It's much faster than S4 (Hibernate to Disk), but uses a little more power when sleeping and tends to cause more problems when resuming (a well-known, often compained about issue). I've managed to get it to work about 95% of the time with the configuration shown below.
First, go into the BIOS and make sure the following is set. It seems to help ensure the screen doesn't remain blank on resume. (Note: my theory only)
Main-> Power On Display-> LCD+Analog RGB
Next, edit /etc/acpi/default.sh and modify the line starting with 'power)':
| File: snippet from /etc/acpi/default.sh |
case "$group" in button) case "$action" in power) /etc/acpi/mySuspend ;; |
Then create a file called /etc/acpi/mySuspend (Don't forget to chmod 755 it):
| File: /etc/acpi/mySuspend |
#!/bin/bash # --- speed up the cpu --- /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 0 --governor performance /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 1 --governor performance sleep 1 # --- hibernate --- /usr/sbin/hibernate-ram sleep 1 # --- slow down the cpu --- /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 0 --governor conservative /usr/bin/cpufreq-set --cpu 1 --governor conservative |
Cranking up the CPU to full speed before a suspend helps to speed up the suspend process. From other documentation I've read, it also seems to make the suspend (or resume, more correctly) process run much more reliably.
The following method for fixing the screen issue with suspend-to-ram (S3) works on my Satellite M100.
Using sys-apps/vbetool with >sys-power/hibernate-script-1.93 allows me to suspend to ram and have my display come back up.
| Code: |
$ echo "sys-apps/vbetool ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords $ emerge -av vbetool hibernate-script |
| File: /etc/hibernate/common.conf |
### vbetool # EnableVbetool yes # RestoreVbeStateFrom /var/lib/vbetool/vbestate # VbetoolPost yes # RestoreVCSAData yes |
| File: /etc/hibernate/ram.conf |
# The following vbetool settings help with > 50% of laptops. EnableVbetool yes #VbetoolPost yes |
--Jdmulloy 21:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Annoyances and ToDos
- LEDs: Damn, those LCDs are bright in a dark room! Need to find a way to manipulate them to be dimmer or turn them off.
- Resume on Lid Open: This machine automatically resumes from suspend when I open the lid. I'd like to find a way to stop that.
[edit] Keyboard Mapping
I much prefer the right-Alt to be a Control key. To get that working, add this to your .xinitrc somewhere before the exec command:
| File: ~/.xinitrc |
xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = Control_R' xmodmap -e 'add Control = Control_R' |
[edit] ToDo
There's a number of things not in this doc. If you have the tima and inclinition, please add/edit whatever you can.
- Extra Video Heads: I have sample configs from a friend on getting the external RGB and S-Video working. Need to get around to trying them.
- Fingerprint Reader: Haven't even tried yet.
- Firewire: It may already be working for all I know - just havn't tried it.
- Panel Buttons: Having a lot of trouble finding any info on these.
- Modem: Never use it, but it should be configured.
- PCMCIA/Cardbus and Media Reader: Haven't tested anything.
[edit] References
The following is a list of pages that were helpful in the compilation of this page.
- OpenSUSE 10.1 on the Toshiba M105-S3041 from the Phoenix Linux User's Group site
- Fedora Core 5 on a Toshiba M105-S3041 From Linux on Laptops
- Jon Lin's Gentoo Thinkpad T60p - Excellent instructions for getting the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11abg card running.
Pages about the Synaptics / Alps GlidePoint Touchpad:
- Gentoo Wiki: Synaptics Touchpad - A good step-by-step installation guide specific to Gentoo.
- synaptics(5) ManPage - A reference for xorg.conf options.
- synclient(1) ManPage - A tool to configure the touchpad on the fly.
- Synaptics TouchPad Driver Homepage - Excellent page for digging down into the details of the touchpad driver.
- /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.5-r1/README.alps.gz: A file containing details on configuring the 'Alps' version of the touchpad.
