[tlinux-users 00204] Re: Toshiba Satellite U400-138 and ACPI issues

[Robert Hunt]

Is there some way that we can advertise to people not to buy Toshiba
laptops if they want to run Linux. Maybe then with some bad publicity, 
the management will take some notice???

Robert.


> Hi,
>
> You'll need to call some ACPI methods in order to enable/disable the
> LEDs. The new models from Toshiba (Statellite A/U 300 and up) are 100%
> designed for Windows. Reading the DSDT ACPI table was a shocker for me
> since it contained a lot of references to some Windows only
> capabilities...