Toshiba Satellite P205D-S8804
I'm currently working on getting Arch set up on my new Toshiba Satellite P205D-S8804. This page isn't complete yet, but I'll work on it as I get things up!
Contents
Networking
The on-board ethernet adaptor worked out of the box for me.
Wifi
This laptop has an Atheros chipset, which is now supported by the latest madwifi release. With that installed, no additional configuration should be necessary.
Modem
Looks like this is a winmodem, but I haven't tried it yet, and do not ever plan to.
Audio
Audio worked out of the box for me as well. See ALSA for details.
Video
This laptop ships with ATI Radeon X1200 integrated video. This card combined with the 17" screen should yield a max resolution of up to 1440x900.
Free Drivers
Initially, I used the free drivers because the prior version of ATI's official driver had serious issues with resolution. I've used xf86-video-vesa, xf86-video-ati, and xf86-radeonhd without problems. All are available in pacman. Note that the vesa driver will not yield high resolutions, and that none of the three provide decent 3D acceleration, although the RadeonHD driver provides some limited accelerated functionality.
ATI Catalyst Driver
Visit the ATI wiki page for instructions on how to get the intial set up completed.
You'll want to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, because otherwise using accelerated 3D causes rather annoying hard (un-recoverable) kernel locks.
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav
to backup the original file, then
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and make changes to the sections below Note: I intentionally left out some sections, like "Fonts" because that may vary from system to system.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Touchpad[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "aiglx" "true" EndSection
Section "Module" #Load "GLcore" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "glx" Load "xtrap" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "synaptics" #Load "vbe" EndSection
Section "ServerFlags" Option "IgnoreABI" "on" EndSection
Section "Device" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Identifier "Card0" Driver "fglrx" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Radeon X1200 Series" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection
Section "Extensions" Option "DAMAGE" "true" Option "RENDER" "true" Option "Composite" "true" EndSection
Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
I added AIGLX to this configuration file, but I do not know that it is necessary -- I added it personally for Compiz.
I haven't tested dual displays or the S-Video out yet.
Touchpad
Works fine with the synaptics driver.
Hotkeys
Not all "hotkeys" are funtional on this machine -- Some of them are not even generating events in the kernel, although I think we can eventually work around that. Here are the keys that I have gotten to work so far:
Mute Suspend to Ram Brightness up Brightness down Volume Wheel "Web" key Play/Pause Stop Previous Track Next Track
What I still have left to fix:
Lock Search Suspend to disk Display toggle Wifi switch (Not sure what this key does -- it is on F8, though) Touchpad switch
In order to get any kind of functionality out of these keys, we need to map them to keysyms under X11. Some window managers (eg GNOME) may do this automatically, but if it doesn't, then here's what we need to do:
- Find out the scan code of the keys we want to map to a specific function. Here's the list that I compiled:
Mute = 160 Suspend to Ram = 223 Brightness Down = 101 Brightness Up = 212 Internet = 178 Play = 162 Stop = 164 Previous Track 144 Next Track = 153 Volume Wheel Down = 174 Volume Wheel Up = 176
- Create an Xmodmap file in your home directory with the functions you want to give those keys.
nano /home/username/.Xmodmap
and create a file with the following format:
keycode ### = function name
where ### = the numerical keycode from the list above, and function name is one of the functions listed in /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
For reference, here's what I used for my .Xmodmap:
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute keycode 223 = XF86Sleep keycode 101 = F28 keycode 212 = F29 keycode 178 = XF86WWW keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
I mapped Brightness up/down to F28 and F29 since I needed two seperate keys for the scripts that I am trying to write to control the LCD brightness -- this laptop is not really playing nicely with ACPI.
From here you'll have to configure your individual system to react to these X11 events -- this will vary depending on what window manager you use, or Desktop Environment.
CD/DVD/Labelflash
The drive reads and writes both CD's and DVD's out of the box. This drive also has labelflash capabilities, but I 'm not sure if that is supported under linux or not.
USB
Functional out of the box
Firewire
Have not tested.
PCMCIA
Have not tested.
5-in-1 card reader
Funtional out of the box, although we need to manually add a module to enable SD card support
modprobe tifm_sd modprobe tifm_7xx1 modprobe tifm_ms modprobe tifm_core
and add tifm_sd, tifm_7xx1, tifm_ms and tifm_core to the modules section of your /etc/rc.conf
I'm not actually sure if things like CompactFlash or MemoryStick are working, SD card is the only thing I have at the moment.
Power Management
Cpufreq
Cpu frequency scaling is supported and works well. Visit the Cpufrequtils wiki page for instructions. The frequency range in question is 800MHz to a max of 2GHz.
Suspend and hibernate
Appears to work flawlessly, although not really speedily. See Suspend and hibernate for configuration details.
Webcam
lsusb returns this webcam as a "Chicony USB 2.0" webcam, which is supported via the uvcvideo and snd_usb_audio modules. See Webcam setup for details.