Re: tlug: Problems with Toshiba notebooks?

["J. David Beutel" <jdb@example.com>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:

> does anybody have any experience with Toshiba notebooks under
> Linux ? I want to buy one here for a friend at home to be run
> under Linux. I heard that there might be compatibility problems
> with some models. So, if there are any known problem models I'd
> like to avoid them. Any info on that ?

I use a Toshiba Tecra 510CDT with Slackware 3.3 (kernel 2.0.30).
The basic stuff works fine, and I haven't tried the special stuff
yet (e.g., I need to rebuild the kernel to try sound support,
and I don't know about the IR i/f, even if I had another IR device
with which to test it).  I read somewhere that Toshiba is not open
with their hardware, so drivers for everything may not be possible.
E.g., in addition to IR, I might have difficulty using the sound i/f
to the telephone (to implement voice-mail in Linux), altho the modem
works fine (even in Japan).  Anyway, see

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

for references to Linux info on many different types of Toshibas.

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