Toshiba Sat. 5205-503

[Alejandro 'lanjoe9' Valenzuela]

Heheh I'm sorry I forgot to say what my laptop model was
(however I did say it in an email I sent about 2 months ago,
that somehow got away unnoticed :P
http://news.gw.com/freebsd.mobile/13375 ).

My laptop is a Toshiba s5205-503.
I've still got the same problems described in that e-mail,
however now I know this laptop's BIOS is only accesible
vía a windoze-based application, and that there is no way
to change the  PNP-OS state. I've also tried OSS drivers,
none at all match my sound card and I tried a few ones which
were similar without success.. and while I thought
everything was solved with GNOME's keyboard accessibility
features, I hadn't noticed GDM still had the problem...

The fix I had found once involved changing a few lines in
atkbd.c , and then recompiling the kernel, I think. I used
it once, but I  reinstalled my system recently and I lost
that fix.

I can't remember exactly in what mailing list I found that
fix, but I'm sure it was one of these: freebsd-questions,
freebsd-mobile or freebsd-hardware.
BTW In my laptop, pressing esc while the toshiba logo is
there
only shows you one BIOS configuration option: "Reset BIOS to
default (y/n)?". Either yes or no and off you go, nothing
else.

I don't know who was genius enough inside toshiba to do such
intelligent changes, perhaps the same one which decided the
network should not be usable when the phone line is
connected (whether you're connected to the internet or
offline).
Thanks for the feedback
Happy new year, everyone