Hi!

I have installed elive linux in muy laptop, but it doesn´t work quite well. Ubuntu and debian don't run y muy laptop, and elive (based on debian), seems to work but has several problems: These are some of those problems:
-apm: BIOS not found
-hw_random error
-DMA ERROR

Please, what can I do to solve these problems or to install another distribution of linux to my toshiba???

thanks. My email is rotialweb@yahoo.es

Are you getting these errors before/during/after installation?

Hi!

I have installed elive linux in muy laptop, but it doesn´t work quite well. Ubuntu and debian don't run y muy laptop, and elive (based on debian), seems to work but has several problems: These are some of those problems:
-apm: BIOS not found
-hw_random error
-DMA ERROR

Please, what can I do to solve these problems or to install another distribution of linux to my toshiba???

thanks. My email is rotialweb@yahoo.es


Well u can always use pcliuxos from www.pclinuxos.com

from the link provided by Guest:

"PCLinuxOS is currently under heavy development and should be considered beta software. PCLinuxOS should work on most modern hardware and comes with advanced hardware detection. PCLinuxOS runs best on computers with at least 256 megabytes of memory."

Its still in beta, has a small dev team and it needs 256mb of memory to run. Not for me thanks...

Two days ago I bougth a Satelite L-20, there are only problems with these laptop. The ACPI it isn't work properly. I tried with an Ubuntu Breeze, Fedora Core 4...

This acpi problem makes that some hardware like rtl8139, wifi2200 don't work

it works ok, a little slow, but is the only distribution i´ve got installed.

I've installed Ubuntu, it works perfect, except the battery monitor (it tells me that i'm using AC allways). I needed to pass the next parameters to the boot:
boot: linux pci=noacpi
Cheers.

http://deigote.blospot.com - deigote EN gmail PUNTO com

I've installed Ubuntu, it works perfect, except the battery monitor (it tells me that i'm using AC allways). I needed to pass the next parameters to the boot:
boot: linux pci=noacpi
Cheers.

http://deigote.blospot.com - deigote EN gmail PUNTO com


Which ubuntu have you installed, hoary or breeze?? I tried to install but it started uncompresing and never finished. I will probe with boot: linux pci=noacpi.
Did you have problems after installation with dma, hw random, etc??
Elive is ok, but it has too many bugs.

thanks for all the answers.

another question, with ubuntu, does wifi 2200 work?? If not I will have to download the package ipw2200 and the firmware, but it would be great if ubuntu could solve this.

thanks

I installed Ubuntu Hoary with an official CD that I requested from Ubuntu's page. I installed it passing the options:
boot: linux acpi=off
and after instalation, i changed the sources.list to breezy and upgraded. Later, I changed the boot parameters in /etc/grub/menu.lst:

...
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-686
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro pci=noacpi quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-686
savedefault
boot
....

and all worked perfect except the battery monitor. I've tried pendrives, digital cameras, usb-bluetooth, usb-wifi, etc...

Having a spare hard drive, I thought I would try the current Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite L20-217. All goes well until it comes to running the graphics, then the install fails. The graphics are ATI.

Any thoughts, as others posting here seem to have had no trouble.

Thanks

I allso was thinking of buying Toshiba Satellite L20 153 to my linuxbook and I was gonne use ubuntu. Is there any way to got batterystatus working and is it easy to install for newbie? Does scrolling work on touchpad and is it possible to turn touchpad off? Does volumekeys and screen brightness keys work?

That's all thanks for answers.

I'm the Toshiba user from above... I've tried Red Hat's Fedora and Ubuntu, I can get further with Fedora but on a second Fedora install (tried Fedora first, Ubuntu, then re-installed Fedora) the graphics seemed to get the better of the install and I gave up. I also couldn't get the wireless networking card working on Fedora. Pity really as I like both wireless and Linux, but went back to Windows XP as it "just works". Both versions of Linux install and work well on my old "scrap" Fujitsu-Siemens 2120 laptop, would be nice to add wireless to that.

I have a Toshiba L20-17 and now I am running Ubuntu 5.10 on it.
I wanted to write a instruction for installing Ubuntu in this laptop, but I have got time yet, so some quick hints:
When you want to install Ubuntu 5.10 on Toshiba L20-217 every thing goes well at the end of the installation when X is going to start you will get a blue window saying that it can not start X because of your graphic card which is a ATI XPRESS 200M, this s what to do to solve this problem:
click no on that windows to get to the command line, on the command line type
sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then you will get xorg.conf which if the file that controls you graphic open by vim which is a text editor.
some where in the xorg.conf you will find a line like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RC410)"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
change it like this
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RC410)"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
for changing it you first have to click i on your keyboard so you can edit the file then del the "ati" and type "vesa", after your typing is finished, press Esc on you keyboard and then press ":" and then type "wq" and press enter.
you should be in the command line now.type
sudo reboot
and press enter and your machine will be reboot and hopefully the next time it boots you will have Ubuntu.

Thanks "Ali"!

I'm the one who is concidering to L20 153, as it seems that there is lot of us unregistered. Anyway I believe that L20 217 is allmost same as L20 153, and that errormessage was excatly the one I got when I tried ubuntu 5.10 live-cd on my friend L20 153. Anyways she is sticking with windows so I can't test more.

Do you have full functionall mousepad (allso scrolling) and volume/brightness keys as I asked above? Did you have to start your installation with that "boot: linux acpi=off"?

At the end I got to ask one really stupid question, since this would be my first laptop: Is there any sence to buy 64bit laptop from HP (ze2349EA) with allmost same price as Toshiba Satellite L20 153, but only with one year warranty, or should I stick with 32bit Toshiba and 2 year warranty?

Toshiba laptops are great. In March I bought M45-S331, running SimplyMepis, need acpi=off, 915resolution, i810 video driver -- also need special programs (toshset, toshutils, fnfx) to get function kys and so on to work -- also GRUB will prevent DVD/CD buttons from working

About a week ago I received HP L2000 that I won in a contest. It's also a great notebook, and I would say somewhat less customized and easier to get working in Linux, though you do need ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless. It has AMD64 but I have not tried 64 bit OS yet.

Toshiba has a better reputation and a longer warranty could be important.

You may want to take a live CD to the store when shopping and try out.

Mike

I was checking from synaptic and found toshset, toshutils (which said: If your laptop's BIOS only supports ACPI and not APM, then toshutils will
probably not work for you.), fnfxd and fnfx-client. So I need to install these (except toshutils, cause I'm not sure does L20 153 support AVPI only) and most of stuff will work?

Howabout that wlan, do you need ndiswrapper with toshiba, or is there linuxdrivers for intel's wlan? If there is linuxdrivers and I allready know this "much" of installing to Toshiba, and nothing special about installing that HP model, I will go for toshiba. :)

Thanks for informative answers for all of you.

Thanks "Ali"!

I'm the one who is concidering to L20 153, as it seems that there is lot of us unregistered. Anyway I believe that L20 217 is allmost same as L20 153, and that errormessage was excatly the one I got when I tried ubuntu 5.10 live-cd on my friend L20 153. Anyways she is sticking with windows so I can't test more.

Do you have full functionall mousepad (allso scrolling) and volume/brightness keys as I asked above? Did you have to start your installation with that "boot: linux acpi=off"?

At the end I got to ask one really stupid question, since this would be my first laptop: Is there any sence to buy 64bit laptop from HP (ze2349EA) with allmost same price as Toshiba Satellite L20 153, but only with one year warranty, or should I stick with 32bit Toshiba and 2 year warranty?

In my Toshiba L20-217 that I have Ubuntu 5.10 every thing is working OK.
I can use touchpad, changing screen contrast changing volume by keyboard and wireless and the rest, the only thing that does not work is battery control, so so if you are using battery if you run out of battery power it will suddenly go of without warning.
I am not using any thing in booting.
If I was you I would go for the HP 64bit, I have my Toshiba for about 3 mounth it is so basic and not working very good with Linux

When I type "sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I get a new file, not one to edit... Have I typed something wrong?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

In my Toshiba L20-217 that I have Ubuntu 5.10 every thing is working OK.
I can use touchpad, changing screen contrast changing volume by keyboard and wireless and the rest, the only thing that does not work is battery control, so so if you are using battery if you run out of battery power it will suddenly go of without warning.
I am not using any thing in booting.
If I was you I would go for the HP 64bit, I have my Toshiba for about 3 mounth it is so basic and not working very good with Linux

Hmm.. Every thing is working ok, but not working very good in linux... :/ Not sure how shoud I understand that. Did you say that just cause of battery control isn't working, or is there something else afterall too?

When I type "sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I get a new file, not one to edit... Have I typed something wrong?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks
If you are using Ununtu 5.10 there should not be any problem and you should get the xorg.conf file, maybe you are using the live CD of Ubuntu,
Did you installed Ubuntu in your PC and then tried "sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf"?
Don’t forger that Linux is case sensitive so X11 is different to x11

Hmm.. Every thing is working ok, but not working very good in linux... :/ Not sure how shoud I understand that. Did you say that just cause of battery control isn't working, or is there something else afterall too?
Ok, that is because I am not good in English, so my sentences some time get meaningless.
As I seed before, I have Ubuntu 5.10 in Toshiba L20-217 and except the buttery monitor that does not show any thing every thing is fine.

Ok, that is because I am not good in English, so my sentences some time get meaningless.
As I seed before, I have Ubuntu 5.10 in Toshiba L20-217 and except the buttery monitor that does not show any thing every thing is fine.
I never used PCMCIA with linux in my laptop, I dont know it works or not

Ok, that is because I am not good in English, so my sentences some time get meaningless.
As I seed before, I have Ubuntu 5.10 in Toshiba L20-217 and except the buttery monitor that does not show any thing every thing is fine.

Well my english isn't so good eather, so we are in the same boat, just that difference that I'm Linux newbie. :) Anyway it seems now that I'm gonna get that toshiba, little smaller than that HP and same ATI card in it, so with 2 year warranty I think it gives me good quality laptop for the things I use it. I allways have my desktop if I need more hd space or something.

But this goes little bit offtopic here, so I return with real questions if / when I face some problems with toshiba. Thanks for all information. :)

Thanks for the assistance with the Satellite and needing to use lower case for the "x11", I'm now up and running via wired networking and indeed entering this via the Toshiba Satellite.

One more question (well perhaps the start of many now I've found this forum)... One poster mentioned getting the wireless networking working. Mine is there in Ubuntu (5.10) but with only a basic interface under "networking" which offers, or appears to offer, only WEP encryption with one key. The built-in wireless networking on the Satellite has WPA encryption with the AES algorithm, which I use with Windows XP (what's that?) via a Cisco wireless access point. I do not want to downgrade the level of security by running an open wireless access point, nor do I want to run weak security by using WEP. Is there an upgrade or driver available that will allow me to run WPA/AES under Ubuntu?

Dave :)

It's me again (that L20 153 man :D), just wondering that do you still see the batterystatus from laptop's led (it should show when it's near to empty etc), even when you cannot see state from linux? Or does this led thing also depend on detection from OS?

You should be able to install wpasupplicant (it's in the debian repos, Ubuntu should have it as well) ... I haven't tried it but supposedly it almost always works and isn't too hard to configure. sometimes it's called wpa_supplicant.

Mike

Hi everybody:

I tryed Fedora 4 on my new Toshy L20. All works fine but networking.
After I ran Knoppix and networking goes very well.
I hope the people of Fedora find soon the answer for that small problem.
Francisco.

Does anyone know a hack so that the DVD player will be multi region, rather than just switching regions 5 times and being stuck with whatever you end up on. Thanks