On Friday April 29 2005 11:30, Ian K wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone out there has a Satellite A70 (the > current model) and tried to put on Gentoo.
I'm typing this on an A70, so the answer is yes :) > Basically I was wondering what features of the > notebook work > with Gentoo (even after tweaks, Im not asking out of the box.) Will > suspends work, > will I be able to control the heatsync fan, will the internal WiFi work, > will the > video cards capability to have an extended desktop work, etc. Wireless: works fine with madwifi Sound: crappy alsa support. It's stereo and all, but no hardware mixing. You'll have to use arts or figure out dmix (which I haven't yet). Keyboard: doesn't work unless you hit Shift+F1. Still haven't found an explanation for this anywhere. Touchpad: synaptics driver should set you up nicely. You'll need evdev support compiled as a module in your kernel. Suspend: very very very flaky with swsusp2. It always suspends, but doesn't always wake up. I'm not sure if you can control the fan manually, but it does it automatically pretty well. The universal slot on the left side (SmartMedia, SD, MemoryStick) doesn't work, because toshiba refuses to release hardware specs for it. *shakes fist* Didn't try the modem, but I heard there are problems with that. Ditto for the IR port. No problems otherwise. Dmitri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
