Re: [gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

[krgn <k.gebbert@gmail.com>]

I have a Satellite P10 probably slightly different from yours but maybe
this modeline works. I have a widescreen too.. and get the 1280x800
working normally.


karlos@RockHead ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf|grep ModeLine
        ModeLine       "1280x800_60" 81.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801
804 828 -hsync +vsync

all the best,

Kartsen


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:50 -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> This is my first post to this list, mainly because the Gentoo community 
> is so awesome to have documentation for everything that I haven't needed 
> to use it before.  I've finally seemed to have run into something that I 
> can't figure out and I can't find very good documentation for.
> 
> I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite M55-S329 laptop.  It came with XP 
> Home preinstalled, along with a bunch of extra stuff I totally didn't 
> need or want.  When I turned it on, messages popped up saying that 
> windows was not secure, so I deleted windows and installed Gentoo.  
> Gentoo itself works beautifully on that laptop, actually.  The built in 
> wireless lan card and gigabit card were both natively supported by the 
> 2.6.15 kernel even.  I was half expecting some problems there.  I 
> installed powernowd and enabled all the stuff for ACPI so that I can use 
> different power profiles with klaptop and now I get rather impressive 
> battery life.  I was even able to install the Gentoo base system with a 
> stage 3 GRP install just on the battery.  I wouldn't have normally, but 
> I was hanging out at Denny's and getting tired of all the stuff in 
> windows popping up and telling me to purchase stuff.  I just wanted to 
> use it.
> 
> Anyway, to get to the point.  After everything is installed and working, 
> there are a few kinks that I can't seem to get worked out.
> 
> Firstly, the suspend to ram function doesn't work properly.  I can get 
> it to suspend to ram ok, but when I resume, the video doesn't come 
> back.  I am using the 2.6.15-suspend2-r6 kernel.  Also, I have the 
> toshiba options in ACPI enabled.  I asked on #suspend2 about it, and 
> they suggested to install vbetool and configure 
> /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf to use it, except vbetool wouldn't 
> compile.  So, I try the toshiba-utils and using those, only it tells me 
> that the computer or kernel is not supported.  I enabled anything 
> related to Toshiba laptops in the kernel, so I'm not sure what else I 
> needed to do.
> 
> I can suspend to disk ok, but when I resume, the wireless card doesn't 
> come back.  If I unload and reload the module, it still will not come 
> up.  Dmesg just says 'failed with error -2'.  I can't seem to get it 
> working if I compile the drivers in the kernel, I seem to have to use 
> the ipw2200 drivers and module.  Everything else works though after a 
> resume to disk.
> 
> The final issue is the widescreen.  From what i've found, I seem to need 
> to configure x.org to use modelines in order to get it to display 
> properly.  Although, I have no clue as to how to set that up.  I found a 
> page on the internet to automatically make a line in xorg, but it wants 
> all the specifications for the monitor and I can't find them.  For the 
> few minutes that I was in windows, I saw that the resolution was set to 
> 1280x768, and that was the max resolution.  I can't see any premade 
> modlines or anything for that matter referring to that resolution.  If I 
> put that mode in xorg.conf as a resolution, xorg says it's an invalid 
> mode and just goes to 1024x768.  At that resolution on a widescreen, 
> everything is stretched across the screen.
> 
> I seem to have hit a wall with these problems.  I'm guessing it's 
> because it's with a laptop, which are relatively obscure when compared 
> to desktops.  Thanks in advance for any help!

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