30 Dec
2002
30 Dec
'02
5:08 p.m.
Hi gang,
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). The only thing I'm wondering about is the battery. 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 that has an acpi bios? Can you
relate your experience to me?
Wes
6 Jan
6 Jan
5:19 p.m.
New subject: [Wlug] Toshiba Laptop?
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.
9:30 p.m.
New subject: [Wlug] Toshiba Laptop?
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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