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Dances With Crows
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 328
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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:
Re: Use toshiba S5200 spécial features
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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:14:24 +0100, marc ebelin staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
| Quote: | I've just installed ubuntu on my toshiba S5200
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Is this a Satellite 5200, or a Satellite 5200-801? (Or do both
designations refer to the same model? Details usually count.)
| Quote: | I'd like to know if I can use features as the remote, the Fn+F5 to
switch the display device, the memory card reader, or the clock?
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http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba.html and looking up the 5200 gives a few
pages, at least one of which is 404ing right now.
http://godlewski.info/toshiba/index.html , maybe? It would help with a
few things like ACPI and the function keys.
None of the pages mentioned a remote of any type; can you describe this
more fully? Pressing a key combination to switch the display device is
common, but getting that working properly usually requires a change to
xorg.conf . This laptop probably has an nVidia video chip, so the thing
to do is to read Appendix I of the evil binary-only nVidia kernel
module's README. That doesn't sound encouraging for version 7676 of the
evil kernel module, so try a more recent version if you can.
| Quote: | Moreover, the lightness at the start up is very dark and I change it
manually. Is it possible to start with a luminous screen?
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Maybe. I dunno; the pages out there don't have as much info as you'd
like (though at least one of them's en français.) Ah well. HTH anyway,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong
http://www.brainbench.com / "He is a rhythmic movement of the
-----------------------------/ penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL |
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gian3000it@yahoo.it
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 25
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I use external parallel port floppy drive on Toshiba Portege?
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Bill Marcum wrote:
| Quote: | ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.portable.]
On 24 Jun 2006 07:54:39 -0700, gian3000it@yahoo.it
gian3000it@yahoo.it> wrote:
gian3000it@yahoo.it wrote:
The BIOS is set to look for the external diskette drive at a
port other than LPR1. It's a fixed setting that apparently
cannot be modified by accessing the BIOS the
standard way. Is there a way to tell the BIOS (or linux)
to look for the floppy drive at LPR1?
In the BIOS setup you have to choose whether the parallel port is used
for a printer or a floppy or disabled.
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In the BIOS, at Parallel Port Mode, I have only two choices: "Std.
Bi-Direct" and "ECP." I tried switching to ECP, but at Floppy
Disk I/O I still get "Floppy Disk = (3F2H/IRQ6/CH2)" just as it
was before - that is the port other than LPR1, and it is still a
fixed value, non-changeable. |
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gian3000it@yahoo.it
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I use external parallel port floppy drive on Toshiba Portege?
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gian3000it@yahoo.it wrote:
| Quote: | In the BIOS, at Parallel Port Mode, I have only two choices: "Std.
Bi-Direct" and "ECP." I tried switching to ECP, but at Floppy
Disk I/O I still get "Floppy Disk = (3F2H/IRQ6/CH2)" just as it
was before - that is the port other than LPR1, and it is still a
fixed value, non-changeable.
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OK, that was under Peripherals. Under I/O Ports I do get four
choices for Parallel Port: LPR1, LPR2, LPR3 and disable.
But not a choice for external diskette drive. |
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