[gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

[Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

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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