Toshiba P100 intel Centrino duo!! help for installation gent

K0smiC · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

hi boys have purchased a portable toshiba, this notebook climbs on a processor intel centers duo, I now wanted to know if gentoo supports this type of processor! thanks for the answer greet! :lol:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:16 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.

[mod]Since this is a kernel/hardware question, I've moved the thread to K&H.[/mod]
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mentorek · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject:

Hi

I'd like to get some infos too. I've got the P100 laptop too and I got problems booting up (PCMCIA problem?). It hangs when trying to start PCMCIA init script.
Anyone who did installation on P100 laptop successfully?
BTW. Also I'm interested in booting linux from firewire device (hdd case).

Anyway, hope to see some response soon

Cheers,
Mik

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

You should post some info or links about the laptop if you want to get some help.

mentorek,
have you tried any of the boot options? Have you tried gentoo nopcmcia or gentoo apci=off noapci?
What live-cd are you using?
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mentorek · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:02 am Post subject:

Hi again

I've used Conrad LiveCD and I know that this CD is not supported by gentoo devs. But still I'd like to get any response on setting up Gentoo on Toshiba P100. I'll try to get it to work anyway.
I've installed it using vmware and right now I'd like to make it work by itself.
Maybe I need to try official LiveCD to boot it and then it will start to work. Gotta check.

Cheers,
Mik

EDIT:

Here's the link to similar laptops to mine:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/productPage.do?service=EU&PRODUCT_ID=118687
it's not the same as mine but essential hardware is the same.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

I see nothing in your hardware that shouldn't be supported by the Linux kernel.
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boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

just booted from the mininal install cd - posting this using links in framebuffer mode. No special args or tweaks needed so far.

Will report back on progress
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mentorek · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

I've tried to install using Conrad LiveCD and got into problems. Here's what I've done:
Using vmware and external hdd I've gone through the Conrad installation instructions. Everything seemed(??) fine. Then I've rebooted my machine and copied the files to the partition on the internal hdd (tried to make it boot via firewire link but with no success). Next I've done the grub stuff. I've tried to start the system but I've got massive error log with kernel netlink and udev problem. The same error message as in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-503137.html thread.
Anyway, the livecd seems to work fine (even kororaa one) but I got errors when tried to boot the system itself. Will try to investigate it further in a day or so.

Cheers,
Mik

P.S.
Sorry for my bad english but it's been a while since I've used it everyday.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

I'm not using Conrad for this project. The machine has plenty power for my purposes, so stability is probably more important than uber optimisation.

busy installing kernal ATM. Only problem so far is Wireless card not having a driver out-of-the-box. I gather an intel driver is available, so no worries there - I'm just doing the downloads over the wire
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boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

After much ado, I have a working laptop.

Just about everything seems fine. The big sticking point is sound which just plain doesn't work. Apparently that's mainly an ACPI bug and should be fixed in an upcoming release. The alsa driver is hda-intel.

Wireless is likewise a pain, although I'd have suffered less if I'd remembered to register the MAC address with my access point. Use the ipw3945 driver. You'll need ipw3945-ucode for the firmware and ipw3945d for the Intel spywa^H^H^H^H^Hregulatory daemon. Start the daemon off from /etc/init.d/ipw3945d or use rc-update to start it automatically. You'll probably want to use the ieee80211 external ebuild, although this topic has an ebuild that lets you compile against the kernel sources.

Apart from that no real problems. Drives are SATA but you need IDE enabled for the CD-ROM, X.Org worked more or less out of the box. I still need to get some sort of hibernation sorted and I havn't played around with some of the other features, such as bluetooth, pcmcia or the multimedia features.

Still, all-in-all, it's worked out quite well.
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boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

A quick update.

The sound problems are proving to be non-trivial The trouble seems to be that ICH7 isn't a chip so much as a (fairly loose) interface specification,and the actual sound chip is a Conexant 5045. Conexant, if you've ever had the dubious trying to make one of their softmodems work on Linux, have a policy of non-co-operation with all things open, and they are being just as needlessly and bloody mindedly awkward over this one, refusing to publish so much as a data sheet for the chip.

Tobin Davis has been working on the problem over on alsa-devel, and I expect we'll have a working driver in due course. I've been helping with the test and will report here as and when the problem is sorted. In the meantime, if anyone gets this working, please tell us how you did it.

Until then, I can't really recommend this machine to anyone who values sound on their laptop. If I'd realised that Conexant were doing the sound, I would have looked elsewhere.
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mentorek · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

Hey

I've tried some patches from Tobin Davis. They were working ok (booting with acpi=off and disabling ethernet in BIOS setup). I've patched alsa-driver with patch8 and had done that on Ubuntu. Tried gentoo several times but got stuck with udev issues -- you can read about this here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511897.html.

So how did you manage to get udev to work?

Cheers,
Mik

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mentorek · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject:

Hey there!

I've got my Gentoo to work!

Thanks for suggestion regarding my problems with udev.

As for Conexant HDA and alsa. It works even with alsa-drivers 1.0.12rc1 (using no-sources 2.6.18-r2) but the sound is rather silent. I'll try the latest patches for 1.0.13 -- it was louder when I've used 1.0.13 and this patch on xubuntu.
I'll try to find any solutions for acpi problems and will post when I'll find any solutions/patches/whatever...
I've found some infos about buggy (acpi) bios on Toshibas P100 but didn't found any soultions.
Anyway, I'll keep everyone informed when I'll find something useful.

Cheers,
Mik

P.S.
Does anybody knows anything about PCMCIA controller, bluetooth and SD/MMC card reader used in this laptop. Are they working with linux or are there any patches that make them working?

ijontichy · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 8

Hi,

i also had the problem to get sound+acpi working on my Toshiba P100-119.
The solution was a simple dsdt-patch, as described here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-444743-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-sndhdaintel+acpi.html

Christian

mentorek · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

Hi Christian,

Thanks for pointing me to this solution. I'll try it when I'll find some time and give some feedback.

Cheers,
Mik

P.S.
Anybody with Gigabyte GN-WI01GT WLAN adapter? I'm trying to get this one to work but without success. Maybe someone will know where to find madwifi-ng svn ebuild?

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

Good! I was hoping someone would get around to hacking the DSDT. Sounds like a project for the holidays. Be nice to have some sound on this thing again.
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mentorek · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

Hey,

I've got acpi and sound working together. It's pretty well documented in the other thread mentioned. The tricky part for me was making the initramfs image. But I did manage and it's working now.

Cheers,
Mik

mentorek · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:10 am Post subject:

New BIOS update (v3.80) released for Satellite P100. I've done the update already but hadn't chance to test it in Linux env.

DSDT looks like it's corrected so hopefully it'll work without any modifications now.

Cheers,
Mik

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

Well, Toshiba haven't been particularly Linux Friendly of late, but I suppose we can always hope.

If it goes pear-shaped, I can always send you a zip of the 2.40 bios release

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mentorek · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

Got 2.40 and 3.30 backed up. But it's good to know that someone has he's own archive somewhere

)

Cheers,
Mik

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Today is the big test day

) Wish me luck

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

mentorek · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:51 am Post subject:

I'm after doing some testing. Booting works OK. Everything looks OK. Even the fans are working OK. Reading battery status OK.
No sound though.
When using DSDT from 3.30 everything works normal. I've extracted and decompiled the DSDT and then diff'ed both .dsl files. They looks similar.

The strange thing is the new file doesn't contain the part where the OS is checked.
Some values are changed from 0x00 to 'Zero' and 0x01 to 'One' and 0xFFFFFFFF to 'Ones'.

There are some other differences in the new .dsl

Cheers,
Mik

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nubla · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 78

Hi,
i had read your talk about backed up the old bios. I have a p100 too and as i needed the old 2.4-bios (gpu works only under this version for me) i found out, that the old version is still on toshibas site. So for people, who wants the old bios immediately:

http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/bios/satellite/p100/win/bios-240win.zip

It should work for other versions too. Just replace the version number. The link is the same on toshiba.de and www.toshiba.co.uk

(Seems that the bios is the same for all p100 models, but check whether it's the correct link for your model!)