Toshiba Tecra S1 doesn't support Toshiba ACPI drivers

betchern0t · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

Hi,
been tearing my hair out trying to get the toshiba utils working on this notebook. Seems that the kernel driver doesn't support this beast. what are the alternatives?

tia

Paul

For those who are also trying to get this to work there are a few clues:

/proc/acpi/toshiba doesn't exist

If using the driver built in dmesg will have a line near the top something like:

toshiba: this laptop is not supported.

and if in module:

modprobe toshiba_acpi returns a fatal error trying to insert the driver.

Cabal2002 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Germany

Hi

do you know this Website http://www.sfu.ca/~saviol/tecras1.htm?
On my S1 ACPI runs quite well without any special toshiba tools.

Greetings
Cabal
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rmh3093 · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

Patch your 2.6 kernel with this patch:
http://memebeam.org/free-software/toshiba_acpi/toshiba_acpi_0.18-dev_toshiba_test4.patch

Then under Processor type and features in your kernel config disable "Toshiba Laptop Support", then go to the Power management options => ACPI and make sure Toshiba Laptop Extras is compiled into the kernel.

The patch actually is an experimental patch that combines the Toshiba Laptop Support and Toshiba ACPI into the Extras driver (before they just conflict)

then you should be able to use the program Toshset below to change all sorts of options related to your computer and have ACPI work also.
http://www.schwieters.org/toshset/
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betchern0t · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

Thanks for the response. Once the christmas dinner is digested I will try it:-{)= Thanks to both of you.

Cheers Paul

betchern0t · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

Hi,
I looked at the link to the setup info. Lots of useful stuff and I am now using cpudynd which goes a long way. However the toshiba specific stuff in the kernel and the tools are still not working. I would guess that Toshiba changed something.

Cheers Paul

rmh3093 · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject:

The "Toshiba Laptop Support" in the processor section and any program that use it are very old and not maintained anymore and are good for crap. They never did anything for me. The "Toshiba ACPI" option adds some extended ACPI support such as adjusting the LCD brightness or turning on the CPU fan. You can only use these features by echoing commands to the /proc/acpi/toshiba/.... directorys. The Toshiba Laptop Support does NOT work if the Toshiba ACPI is enabled so you have to use that patch. THe patch actually mimics what the Toshiba Laptop Support does with out breaking it and you still get the ACPI support. I dont know any other program besides toshset which can access these features anymore.
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