I am writing this on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I have used it since Suse 7.2 but it is now 8.1. APM worked correctly with 8.0 but not with 8.1 so I will be reinstalling it with 8.0. Otherwise, I am happy with it though it gets hot and the battery only lasts about an hour. Bob Condon doug waud wrote:
Wesley Allen wrote:
What's your collective opinion of Toshiba laptops? Circuit City has got a decent machine (Satellite 1415-s173) for $999 and they actually let me boot Knoppix on it to check out hardware support (everything worked).
I have an old toshiba satellite ( 2595cdt ) which runs nicely for me on SuSE 7.2. I have had it since 0ct/99. No problems. Have added memory and put in a large hard drive.
The only thing I'm wondering about is the battery.
Battery life sucks. Like Andy I seem to get very poor running time. I get an hour or less on battery so, for all practical purposes, I just run it off the AC.
MY HP laptop doesn't let Linux read the battery info with either apm or acpi, and I think this is a function of an incredibly bad bios implementation. The demo models at Circuit City didn't have batteries, so I had no way of checking this bug out on that brand. Does anyone have experience with a Toshiba laptop t
I ran xapm and got a display which said I had 15% charge so I assume the bios was readable. The 15% probably means little since the computer has been sitting in its case inactive since the last WLUG meeting.
doug
PS while drafting this email the % came up to 21 so it seems the xapm is working as expected.
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