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Hi Roberto,
Thanks for your reply,
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> I am the former maintainer. I orphaned the package because I no longer
> have a Toshiba notebook. I would recommend asking on debian-user or
> debian-laptop to see if someone can help. I will look into it and see
> what I can come up with, but it may not be much. If you can create and
> test a patch (or have someone else do so), I would gladly performa QA
> upload of the package.
>
> Another possibility might be to contact upstream.
Thanks, I will do that tomorrow, In the mean time I'll add some simple
research I did so far for the benefit of the log.
* Upstream explicitly says that the R500 transreflective display is
supported, as is AMD64, so the machine should be supported I guess.
* The program is bailing out in kernelinterface.c, it first checks if it
can access TOSH_PROC, which I can't see where it is set, but is set to
/proc/toshiba; neither this nor /dev/toshiba exist on the machine.
void
detAccessMode()
{
accessMode=ACCESS_DIRECT;
if ( 0==access(TOSH_PROC, R_OK) )
accessMode=ACCESS_KERNEL;
else if ( 0==access("/proc/acpi",R_OK) ) {
fprintf(stderr,"required kernel toshiba support not enabled.\n");
exit(1);
}
} /* detAccessMode */
* so then it bails since we can access /proc/acpi since toshiba_acpi is
loaded we have /proc/acpi/toshiba/.
* if I force a return of ACCESS_DIRECT I get "toshset: unable to get
BIOS version"
* if I force a return of ACCESS_KERNEL I get "toshset: unable to get
machine identification"
This bug seems to be known to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/toshset/+bug/181374
CT.
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