Re: [gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

[Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the quick reply!

When I went to enter that in, I looked up a website to tell me where to 
put that, because I couldn't remember.  I finally stumbled on this:

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQVideoModes#head-a8891acdd12af18ef2c26fd86e50c194ac26eb0f

which says how to get the correct numbers from xorg.log files.  I put 
the numbers it needed in and it worked perfectly.  My modeline is a 
little different than yours.. i'm not sure how picky xorg is about it 
but it works, so I'm happy with that.  At least you put me in the 
direction I needed to go, thanks!

Now if I can have the same luck with the suspend thing.

krgn wrote:

>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.
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>karlos@RockHead ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf|grep ModeLine
>        ModeLine       "1280x800_60" 81.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801
>804 828 -hsync +vsync
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>all the best,
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>Kartsen
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>On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:50 -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
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>>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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