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Author Topic: Toshiba Satellite laptop ACPI & battery  (Read 1479 times)
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« on: September 04, 2010, 08:15:41 AM »

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I have a Toshiba Satellite L650D laptop and I have to start with acpi=off option. Is it affecting in any way my hardware? The one thing I found is that my battery is apparently not recognized, as if I pull the AC of there is no  indication that I'm on battery power now. How to configure that? Otherwise, thank you for your really superior hardware detection - both my wired and wireless cards are working only here without any problems. Smiley

PS: another small thing - how to setup my laptop special keys - like touchpad on/off button, FN+F# key combinations?
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2010, 09:16:00 AM »

I can't help with the first problem but with the keys I will tell you what I have done. I installed keytouch and keytouch editor. If you run keytouch and there is not a key map file for your laptop then you run the editor and make one ( it prompts you for input) save it as the name of you laptop and then run keytouch to assign it. I don't think this helps with the Fn keys just the audio and such. That said the last two Toshiba laptops I have bought worked with the new kernels with no configuration, Fn keys and all.
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2010, 09:42:28 AM »

Hi

If you haven't already done so you may want add the Battery Monitor widget.

Click the Cashew icon on the panel > Add Widgets > look for the Battery Monitor widget - Double Click on it and it should drop it into your panel.

Close Widget area and you should be good to go - you may need to right click the Battery icon for any configuration it offers.

Note: if the Cashew isn't showing, right click the panel and choose Unlock Widgets
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« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2010, 10:37:01 AM »

Hello,
Apparently the lack of battery support is due to acpi problem. The solution is in more recent kernel - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103770 Is it possible to install newer one and take advantage of acpi=copy_dsdt?
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2010, 10:55:07 AM »

Hello,
Apparently the lack of battery support is due to acpi problem. The solution is in more recent kernel - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103770 Is it possible to install newer one and take advantage of acpi=copy_dsdt?

What kernel are you using now?

The latest one(s) in the repo is 2.6.33.7 - and it will be a matter of waiting for newer kernels to be made ready by Tex.
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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2010, 08:01:24 AM »

Is there any way to install more recent kernel while keeping the pclinuxos patches and drivers?
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« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2010, 08:14:36 AM »

Is there any way to install more recent kernel while keeping the pclinuxos patches and drivers?

As far as I'm aware widz you would need to compile/build a newer one yourself - there's no "official" method of adding/applying it.

I think Tex and his team are fairly rigourous when it comes to kernel testing which is why we wait a while after a new one comes out.  It's better to have all the bugs ironed out first than releasing one which may cause grief.
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« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2011, 02:01:17 PM »

got the sam problem here  Cry

My laptop is a toshibe satellite L655-121. And mine is a brand new laptop  Shocked

But i'm usin the 64 bit version kde with 2.6.38.8bfs but there's no other 64 bit kernel avaiable in the repos Sad

well suppose got to forgot the battery, unless any 64 bit kernel will be relased.

Any info about that day???  Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2011, 05:46:16 AM »

You should check if there is a newer version of BIOS for  your machine - that made it work for me.
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