Toshibal Sat. A105-4001 Review + Questions [RTL ALC861 Sound, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG issues]

[Wesley Morgan]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Steven James Samuel Stapleton wrote:

> I have this notebook, and it seems to work well, except for two luxury items
> which I can't get working... The wireless and sound, listed in the subject.
> I know the sound works in linux, and I know Intel made linux drivers for the
> chipset... However, after trying Linux, and not even going 24 hours without
> a tedious, poorly documented issue I had to fix in a critical system for me,
> I remember why I didn't care for Linux, and went back to BSD. Sound and
> Wireless aren't worth that annoyance.

Try the "free" OSS drivers from 4-front technologies at 
www.4front-tech.com.


>
> Now my notes on the machine for prospective BSD interested buyers...
> Specifications:
> Satellite A105-S4001
> Intel® Core Solo Processor T1300 (1.66GHz);
> 512MB DDR2-533 RAM;
> 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive;
> SuperMulti Double Layer 8x DVD±RW Drive;
> 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter;
> Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video Chipset;
> Realtek ALC861 Sound;
> 10/100 Network Adapter;
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> 15.4" Widescreen XGA TruBrite Display;
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2)  [not anymore...]
>
>
> ===== What works: =====
> Intel® Core Solo Processor T1300 (1.66GHz);
> 512MB DDR2-533 RAM;
> 10/100 Network Adapter;
> 15.4" Widescreen XGA TruBrite Display;
> Touchpad;
> 4xUSB;
>   No real surprises with these, though the XOrg was tricky to get working
>   with the native res. If you have trouble with the native monitor res,
> look at
>   my monitor configuration entry at the end of the mail.
>   You'll need to turn on the moused in your rc.conf to get the touchpad to
>   work. USB mice work fine, as well as USB drives.
>
> 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive;
>   Yes, the hard drive controller works!
>
> SuperMulti Double Layer 8x DVD±RW Drive;
>   At least reading CDs/CDRs, haven't tested anything else yet.
>
> Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video Chipset;
>   The i810 driver in XOrg works fine, as stated in the docs. However, the
>   shared memory can be problematic when doing memory intensive tasks...
>
>
> ===== Not Tested: =====
> 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter;
> 1x Firewire;
>   I have any memory-card or firewire type devices.
>
>
> ===== Things that I can't get working so far: =====
> Realtek ALC861 Sound;
>   The default sound driver (snd_drv) in the handbook has no effect, the
>   soundstat doesn't produce any loaded drivers. snd_ich also doesn't
>   provide any results (not that I expected any)
>
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
>   The wi and iwi drivers do not function here, I saw another thread about
>   them, but haven't had a chance to sift through it yet. It looked lite
> the main
>   idea was that the patchsets for this card were still buggy?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton
>
>
>
> XOrg monitor config (This is taken from a googled post on a 15.4" widescreen
> for a slightly different Toshiba model), and selected other XOrg sections:
>
> Section "Module"
> Load  "dbe"
> Load  "dri"
> Load  "i810"
> Load  "extmod"
> Load  "glx"
> Load  "GLcore"
> Load  "record"
> Load  "xtrap"
> Load  "freetype"
> Load  "type1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>       ### Available Driver options are:-
>       ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>       ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>       ### [arg]: arg optional
>       #Option     "ShadowFB"            # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "DefaultRefresh"      # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"  # [<bool>]
> Identifier  "Card0"
> Driver      "vesa"
> VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
> BoardName   "Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
> BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier   "Monitor0"
> VendorName   "Toshiba"
> ModelName    "SatelliteLCD"
>       HorizSync    30.0 - 107.0
>       VertRefresh  50.0 - 185.0
>       Option       "DPMS"
>       Modeline     "1280x800" 159.74 1280 1296 1552 1664 800 800 815 835
> EndSection
>
>
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