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Toshiba Digital Media Engineering Corporation's (DME) mission is to offer good and effective communication channel between people developing device drivers and system utility programs for Toshiba PCs and our head company, Toshiba Corporation. We provide the Linux developers community with technical information requested and try to update them in any stages with cooperation from Toshiba Corporation

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Linux Fn+Fx Specification
Documentation of approaches to control Fn+Fx and buttons functions.(Released on 09-09-'08.)
TecraS1 Hotkey Control Process To be provided by email attachment: released on 05-12-04.

An user has successfully developed a user space program to set the LCD brightness level of Tecra S1. You can download the program from his web site: http://tz.exit0.net/tecras1.html

An user has successfully developed a Linux kernel module which supports all of the features in Tecra S1. You can download the module from his web site: http://www.gesal.org/tecra
How To Access HCI/SCI With ACPI
To be provided by email attachment. Just for your reference only:
unofficially-translated (J to E) version.(Released on 03-26-'04.)

An user has successfully developed a Linux kernel module which supports all of the features in Tecra S1. You can download the module from his web site: http://www.gesal.org/tecra
SCI/HCI Specification To be provided by email attachment. For descriptive contents, pls see "Contents" of this doc. (Released on 03-26-'04.)
Brightness Control in BIOS How to terminate the brightness control according to the battery quantity level in BIOS. (03-04-'02)
Smart Media Controller Info The information is online through SSFDC Forum. To request the SMIL Source Code, review the information in the SMIL Download Page.(03-04-'02)
HCI Brightness Control Document of HCI Brightness Contorl. (03-04-'02)
Bluetooth Information Document about the power (ON/OFF) of the Bluetooth Device.(03-01-'02)

Our user has informed us that "switching toshset ver.1.62 (http://schwieters.org/toshset/) between On/Off" enables the query.
(11-06-'03)
IrDA chip information
(UIRCC chip by SHARP)
Providing SHARP UIRCC chip information. via email(11-12-'01)
TOSHIBA IDE Controller Information Providing TOSHIBA IDE Controller Register Specification via email(09-07-'01)
Hibernation (ACPI)
information
Providing specification of External Interface for Hibernation Utility via email (01-02-'01)
Remote control (i.shuttle)
for Libretto ff1100 information
Providing the i.shuttle document.via postal mail
(01-17-'00).Available only in Japanese.
Internal sound chip information (Maestro chip by ESS) Providing ESS contact infovia email. (11-08-'99)
PC card controller/pcmcia-cs
(ToPIC97/100 by Toshiba)
Providing the ToPIC97/100 document in Japanese via email. English Translation can be downloaded from the download section.
IrDA chip information
(Oboe chip by Toshiba)
Providing the Oboe chip information via email.
List of IrDA chips http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/library/irda-chiplist.htm (JPN only)
Internal modem chip information(MARS chip by Lucent) Details please refer to the Reference page.
HCI/SCI Interface for Addition of Console Locking Function Not to be disclosed because of security reasons (e.g. password). Also, this issue offers several accesses by machine type, which makes it even harder to achieve the standardization.
In Touch Module Specs Not to be disclosed due to various factors.(02-26-'04)
Camera Info. for Tecra 750/780and for Libretto ff1100
Internal camera
(SCOOPY)
The information includes some of the confidential parts using technical info. from other companies outside of Toshiba Corp. Several discussions with the companies resulted in nondisclosure to keep the NDA. (12-10-'99)


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