Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:27:42 +0200 From: Borje Josefsson <bj@dc.luth.se> To: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Toshiba laptops Message-ID: <200304231427.h3NERg2F039773@dc.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:16 EDT. <20030423101128.Q5477@volatile.chemikals.org>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:16 EDT Wesley Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tom wrote: > = > > does anyone have any experience installing freebsd on a toshiba lapto= ps in > > general or ( specifically ) the satellite 1415 S173? what works/does= n't > > work? > = > My satellite pro 6000 works fantastically with 5-current. In the past f= ew > months, someone fixed the ohci code to work properly, and either someon= e > fixed the t4dwave driver or the new system board I had put in (warranty= > issue) upgraded some chips and they now work. I'm guessing the Yamaha > chipset (IIRC that's what it has) is well supported. The geforce4 chip = is > supported by X and the nvidia drivers will probably work fine. > = > You'll want to run 5.0 for cardbus support. > = > The only piece of hardware that probably won't work is the modem. But w= ho > needs modems any more, and you can always pick up a pccard modem that > works. I have a Xircom type3 that works fine for traveling. I tried FreeBSD on my Portege 2000 last summer. While most things work = fine, I couldn't get the function keys (Func+Fn) to work (for example = Func+F5 to change between LCD and external video). It seems that all of = those keys are not handled by the BIOS directly, but instead interpreted = by Windows. If it was just for changing int/ext video, I could have lived= = with the problem, but not when LCD light, speaker volume etc also are = affected :-( There exists a Linux program "tosutils" that (supposedly) handles this, = but I haven't found a FreeBSD version of that yet. --B=F6rje
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