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10.1 official on Tecra S1


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I'm looking to install 10.1 official on a Toshiba Tecra S1. Several questions:

1. Will the installer be able to take 5gb off each of the two partitions on it? (I only have restore CDs, which refuse to give me anything but 2 20gb NTFS partitions)

2. Will both the wireless & the ethernet work properly, or will they need further config?

3. Any other features on this laptop that I should be aware of when installing?

 

Thanks

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1. As long as you are using the custom partition scheme, I don't see why not. Just in case, defrag your hard drive fully and back up everything before you install Mandrake.

 

2. Ethernet should work properly with just a little bit of configuring (the typical stuff like static ip or dynamic ip, etc). Wireless I am not sure about since wireless is a bit problematic in Linux right now. The only way to test it is to try it yourself.

 

3. Like I said, try installing it and see if there are gotchas and glitches that you need working around. Laptops in my experience is a bit finicky to get it working 100%.

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Thanks for that :) At the minute, the ethernet is working with no interference on my part, but no joy with the wireless. Otherwise, I currently seem to be without working battery gauges, and a SD card reader. (All the stuff I can find on the net says that this will not work, anyone who can tell me how to get it to work will be much appreciated)

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For battery gauges, first you need to make sure that acpi is on.

 

1. Check whether there is a line in your /etc/lilo.conf that starts with the words

append="

and make sure there is a line saying

acpi=on

in there.

If not, add it, then run lilo -v to make it stick, then reboot

 

2. Make sure that acpi and acpid services are loaded. Use drakxservices to check. If they are not even available, urpmi acpi and acpid

 

3. Make sure that toshiba_acpi module is loaded. Put the line

toshiba_acpi

in your /etc/modprobe.preload to make it loaded at boot time.

 

4. If you are using KDE, install kdeutils-klaptop by urpming it so that you can see the battery gauge in your KDE.

 

That's how I got battery gauge to come up in my toshiba laptop. So it should work for you.

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Installed as per your instructions, now laptop battery config gives me this message:

Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel.
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Can you post your /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/modprobe.preload and /etc/modprobe.conf?

 

Also check what is the output of this command?

 

rpm -qa |grep acpi

 

Finally check the content of your /proc/acpi directory and see if there is something directory named battery in there?

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Stuff as per requested:

 

Results of rpm -qa |grep acpi:

 

acpid-1.0.3-1mdk

acpi-0.07-4mdk

 

Lilo.conf:

 

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot

# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

 

default="linux"

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

keytable=/boot/uk.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux"

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="acpi=on splash=silent"

vga=788

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux-nonfb"

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="acpi=on"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="failsafe"

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="failsafe acpi=on"

read-only

other=/dev/hda1

label="windows"

table=/dev/hda

 

Modprobe.preload:

 

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are

# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with

# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.

# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY

# for old kernel use /etc/modules

 

intel-agp

toshiba_acpi

 

Modprobe.conf:

 

# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command

 

alias eth0 eepro100

remove snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true

options ipw2100 if_name=eth1

 

proc/acpi:

There is a directory named battery, but it is empty.

 

 

I'm afraid I'm really out of my depth here- Instructions needed please! :)

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Try adding these into the append=" section in your /etc/lilo.conf

 

noapic nolapic

 

Acpi and acpid is running in the services right?

Even worse, I'm afraid- Right after pressing enter to boot Linux in Lilo, I get a black screen, & the laptop has to be turned off. (I've waited over 5 mins, should I be waiting longer?)

Yes, both Acpi and acpid are running in the services.

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Ouchie.. sorry about that. I usually have those options on every computer I install Mandrake in. Because if it is not, then it will hang.

 

Anyway, I cannot help you any more in this regards. Sorry about that. Usually toshibas are pretty easy to get working but I guess Tecras are too different from Satellites.

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Hmm.. from that site, it seems that there is a DSDT problem with toshiba tecra. The site only covers kernel 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 while Mandrake uses 2.6.8. I'm surprised that DSDT problem is not solved in newer kernel already.

 

Anyway, I don't know much about DSDT, so try searching this board for that.

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