| Slackware
10.0 on Satellite A75-S209
I'm not a Linux expert, but I know some tricks (enough
to be able to
break things up ;)). I installed Slackware 10.0 on
my A75
I had no trouble in the installation and I managed
to make the wifi and
the sound work. The biggest help was this page:
http://jmccoy.sdf-us.org/slackware/toshiba-a75.php
by Jeff McCoy (thanks Jeff)
Here is a summary of what's in there:
|
Hardware
Components
|
Status
under Linux
|
Notes
|
| Mobile Pentium 4 518 supporting
hyperthreading (Mobile P4 518, 2.8GHz) |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
15.4 WXGA TFT Display
(1280x800, 60Hz refresh) |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
| ATI Radeon Mobility 9000
64MB Shared Memory |
Works |
Works with radeon driver
supplied with standard slackware install (xorg/dri
driver). I haven't gotten the ati binary driver
to work. |
| 512MB DIMM (fixed memory
slot with one upgradeable slot) |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
| 60 GB Hard Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
Integrated Wireless
(Atheros 802.11 bg) |
Works |
Based on Atheros chipset;
use Madwifi drivers. |
| Integrated Network Card
10/100 Ethernet LAN |
Works |
Uses Realtec 8139 chipset;
modprobe 8139too and it works |
| Internal V.92/56k Modem |
Don't Know |
Haven't test the modem |
| DVD/CD-RW Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
| Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure required
during installation |
| Realtek ACL250 Sound Card |
Works |
ALSA Sound drivers required
for Kernel 2.4.x
Uses snd-atiixp module; hotplug incorrectly loads
both snd-atiixp and snd-atiixp-modem; need to
blacklist the modem module to get sound working. |
| Touchpad |
Works |
Touchpad is recognized
as an Alps touchpad; works out of the box with
a 2.4 kernel; for 2.6, apply alps patch and use
synaptics driver. |
| ACPI |
Works Partially |
Used the acpibare kernel;
can see battery status etc, system powers down
properly, but beyond that I haven't gotten ACPI
functions to work. |
Well, almost everything is there.
I didn't try the ACPI with the acpibare kernel. General
ACPI is not
working, only FN-F6/F7 to control brightness.
I have some problems with the Xorg scripts I'm sending
xorg.conf file, but
the rest is fine.
Next step is to recompile the kernel to get ACPI.
I have to say the ACPI
management is not so good under Windows XP. The application
need Admin
priviledges to run properly (otherwise it does nothing).
I also have some
unexpected power offs, due to driver bugs. (Unfortunatelly,
I don't have
the windows error report)
I hope this helps.
PS : I'm attaching some files as below:
xorg.conf
modules.conf
dmesg
blacklist
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