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