Don Raboud wrote:

On Friday 20 June 2008 01:51:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote:

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Listmates,

I am having a terrible time getting the toshiba utils to work properly in 10.3. Attempting to insert the module gives the following error:

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Does anybody have any idea how to go about troubleshooting this? Thanks.

Did you have this working with a previous version of openSUSE? Does your laptop have a Toshiba BIOS or a Phoenix BIOS?

Don, Interesting you ask. The BIOS is Phoenix which is what ships on the box. It's a P205D-S7802. I have read the docs about the Phoenix BIOS being a problem on the 1600 and 1700 series machines and the Satellite 35DVD, but since Toshiba was putting out the BIOS update for this BIOS and it being the only one offered, I presumed it would be supported. See: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=1995794&moid=1909323&rpn=PSPBLU&BV_SessionID=@@@@0426167195.1214010269@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadeegmgmhimcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0&ct=DL&all_docs=false I had this working with my other laptop Toshiba P35, but I have only had this laptop for about a week and I have not had it working before. The biggest frustration is the display in openSuSE 10.3 always initializes "full-bright" and I have no way to dim it since the function keys are non-functional. Any other thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Don Raboud wrote:

On Friday 20 June 2008 07:11:59 pm David C. Rankin wrote:

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Don Raboud wrote:

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On Friday 20 June 2008 01:51:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote:

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Listmates,

I am having a terrible time getting the toshiba utils to work properly in 10.3. Attempting to insert the module gives the following error: < snip >

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Does anybody have any idea how to go about troubleshooting this? Thanks. Did you have this working with a previous version of openSUSE? Does your laptop have a Toshiba BIOS or a Phoenix BIOS? Don,

Interesting you ask. The BIOS is Phoenix which is what ships on the box. It's a P205D-S7802. I have read the docs about the Phoenix BIOS being a problem on the 1600 and 1700 series machines and the Satellite 35DVD, but since Toshiba was putting out the BIOS update for this BIOS and it being the only one offered, I presumed it would be supported. See:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=1995794 &moid=1909323&rpn=PSPBLU&BV_SessionID=@@@@0426167195.1214010269@@@@&BV_Engin eID=ccceadeegmgmhimcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0&ct=DL&all_docs=false

I had this working with my other laptop Toshiba P35, but I have only had this laptop for about a week and I have not had it working before. The biggest frustration is the display in openSuSE 10.3 always initializes "full-bright" and I have no way to dim it since the function keys are non-functional. Any other thoughts?

David,

I have a Toshiba laptop, also with a Pheonix Bios, and I could not get the utilities to work either. Through some searching I came across what looks like the home page for the Toshiba Linux Utilities package

http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html

That page contains the paragraph (the docs you referred to earlier?)

"The Toshiba Linux utilities are specific to Toshiba laptops, and will not run on laptops from other manufactures. In addition they will not run on Satellite 16xx, 17xx, 3000 and 35DVD machines from Toshiba either. These models sport Pheonix BIOS'es and are made in that part of China that is not part of China. In short they are not true Toshiba laptops and are unlikely to ever be supported by the Toshiba Linux Utilities."

I took that to be Pheonix BIOS -> No Toshiba Utilities. I didn't look at all into BIOS updates though.

If you do manage to get it working I would be interested in hearing about it.

Don, I'll be sure to post anything I can come up with, but it looks like the Phoenix BIOS screws us from being able to use toshutils. I have tried manually creating the device to see if I can load the driver that way with: 03:48 alchemy/dev> sudo mknod -m 0666 Toshiba c 10 181 03:49 alchemy/dev> l Toshiba crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 181 2008-06-21 03:49 toshiba but no luck there either: 03:49 alchemy/dev> sudo modprobe -v toshiba_acpi insmod /lib/modules/2.6.22.18-0.2-default/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.22.18-0.2-default/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device The major and minor node numbers are correct according to the README and confirmed in /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.18-0.2/Documentation/devices.txt I have also tried the "fnfx" .rpm with no luck yet either. What is bizarre about this is that I just checked my other laptop where the function keys work (P35-S629) and it has a Phoenix BIOS there as well. At this point and am just hunting and pecking to find a clue about the laptops keyboard bindings, how they get made, and what one has to do add a function key to the mix. Thanks for your input and let me know if you turn over a stone that by chance has a bit of luck underneath. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org