r was loaded from the vanilla install disks.
Don't forget to look at the linux for laptops pages for this model
either -- there's some stuff there I'm not going to repeat here. I
hope to have a i2500 page up there soon myself -- it'll be at
http://www.rivenstone.net/linux/i25
s a kernel OOPS, which when
traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
been this way with every BIOS version greater than A06 -- which isn't
available anywhere I could find.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I think I said something eloquent, like '
The battery socket gets
detected as long as there is no battery inserted at boottime; if a
battery is inserted after that, ACPI reports errors when trying to
query the battery status.
I would be happy if anyone (with or without an i2500) wants to try
to help figuring out what is wrong with ACPI.
ck (with intellimice and clones) setting X
to use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device. I use gpm's 'raw' repeater
type, and the IMPS/2 X mouse driver (*not* the IntelliMouse driver,
which is different for I don't know why.) Set up this way, the mouse
pointer doesn't &
t know what kind of performance hit it entails, but most
software can be made to work with esd or artsd with the esddsp/artsdsp
wrappers, I think.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data."
-- William Graves Perry Jr.
find some of that info (hold down ESC at the initial "Toshiba" boot
screen).
There are two pages describing Linux on the Tecra 8000 in the
Toshiba section of linux-laptop.net -- you may want to give them a
look.
Good luck with Linux!
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"That's all I have to say about that." -- Forrest Gump.
mouse device in XF86Config to
/dev/gpmdata too -- it's made the mouse more responsive and less
'jumpy' on every machine I've tried it on.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"That's all I have to say about that." -- Forrest Gump.
pgpFFtuCuyrgt.pgp
Description: PGP signature
-deceased Toshiba -- it
handles PC Cards as a special case of hotplug PCI. I think it's the
right one for the network half of you Xircom too.
I think then the scripts in the 'hotplug' package should help in
automating the plugging and un-plugging of the cards, but I never used
i
r was loaded from the vanilla install disks.
Don't forget to look at the linux for laptops pages for this model
either -- there's some stuff there I'm not going to repeat here. I
hope to have a i2500 page up there soon myself -- it'll be at
http://www.rivenstone.net/lin
s a kernel OOPS, which when
traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
been this way with every BIOS version greater than A06 -- which isn't
available anywhere I could find.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I think I said something eloquent, like 'Fuck.
The battery socket gets
detected as long as there is no battery inserted at boottime; if a
battery is inserted after that, ACPI reports errors when trying to
query the battery status.
I would be happy if anyone (with or without an i2500) wants to try
to help figuring out what is wrong with ACPI.
luck (with intellimice and clones) setting X
to use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device. I use gpm's 'raw' repeater
type, and the IMPS/2 X mouse driver (*not* the IntelliMouse driver,
which is different for I don't know why.) Set up this way, the mouse
pointer doesn't &
t know what kind of performance hit it entails, but most
software can be made to work with esd or artsd with the esddsp/artsdsp
wrappers, I think.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data."
-- William Graves Perry
find some of that info (hold down ESC at the initial "Toshiba" boot
screen).
There are two pages describing Linux on the Tecra 8000 in the
Toshiba section of linux-laptop.net -- you may want to give them a
look.
Good luck with Linux!
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
mouse device in XF86Config to
/dev/gpmdata too -- it's made the mouse more responsive and less
'jumpy' on every machine I've tried it on.
--
Joseph Fannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"That's all I have to say about that." -- Forrest Gump.
msg07404/pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
-deceased Toshiba -- it
handles PC Cards as a special case of hotplug PCI. I think it's the
right one for the network half of you Xircom too.
I think then the scripts in the 'hotplug' package should help in
automating the plugging and un-plugging of the cards, but I never
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