ToshibaSatelliteA30

  1. hardware
  2. laptop

So i have a new laptop, ''again''. Not that i'm unhappy about it, but there's always a few glitches to fix, thanks to the general interoperability of hardware these days.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite PSA30C-00YS5. Some files are available for download on the toshiba site, but it's all windows drivers.

Previous experience

At least one person documented the A30 on linux, but the only page left is a backup in archive.org.

The touchpad

After a debian etch install, the touchpad seemed to only move around (no tap, no scroll) and very slowly. The various mouse settings controls of GNOME didn't fix anything, so I had to dig deeper. I found this thread on Ubuntuforums.org that showed me a dump of xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver        "synaptics"
    Option "AlwaysCore"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
    Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/event2"
    Option        "Protocol"        "event"
    Option "LeftEdge" "130"
    Option "RightEdge" "840"
    Option "TopEdge" "130"
    Option "BottomEdge" "640"
    Option "FingerLow" "7"
    Option "FingerHigh" "8"
    Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
    Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
    Option "ClickTime" "0"
    Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
    Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
    Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
    Option "MinSpeed" "0.60"
    Option "MaxSpeed" "1.10"
    Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"
    Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
    Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
    Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
    Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
    Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
    Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
    Option "SHMConfig" "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

With this, the scroll works, the mouse has an acceptable speed. and tapping works, although a bit retarded.

Hardware monitor

Unsurprisingly, mbmon doesn't cut it. The webarchive page tells me that the omnibook driver is what i need, but it doesn't compile in 2.6.17.

Frequency scaling

Ça marche bien, mais il serait bien d'avoir une meilleure granularité dans le scaling (ie. pas 1.6 et 3.2). Comment faire: Le module acpi-cpufreq semble trouver le processeur:

Sep 10 13:17:33 orange kernel: acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated.

Il faut aussi activer les modules freq_table, cpufreq_ondemand, cpufreq_power, cpufreq_powersave et activer les scripts de cpufrequtils dans /etc/default/cpufrequtils et relancer le truc avec /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils restart. Le petit applet de gnome me montre que mon processeur est maintenant à 1.6Ghz, yay.

DRI/accélération graphique

$ glxgears
2656 frames in 5.0 seconds = 531.062 FPS
2657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 531.267 FPS
2656 frames in 5.0 seconds = 531.072 FPS
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
après l'upgrade à Xorg 7.0, il faut télécharger une librairie de experimental et installer le /usr/lib/dri qui en provient: 
# mkdir tmp



dpkg -x libgl1-mesa-dri_6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1_i386.deb tmp



mv /usr/lib/dri /usr/lib/dri.old



mv tmp/usr/lib/dri/ /usr/lib/dri



exit



$ glxinfo | grep direc
direct rendering: Yes
* truc d'un geekblog * bug et discussion reliés

suspend/resume

Le "suspend to disk" ne marche pas. Ça essaie de suspendre puis ça gèle:

cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core thinks it is
swsusp: Need to copy 31320 pages
swsusp: critical section/: done (31320 pages copied)
...
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: thermal monitoring enabled
swsusp: restoring highmem
cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core thinks it is
...

Le "suspend to ram" éteint la machine d'un coup puis en redémarrant, gèle sans montrer le BIOS.

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