Re: Toshiba Satellite P10

Jaco Kroon
2005-12-23T06:44:34Z

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:59:26PM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>>P4 - not HT though (not afaik anyway - or for a change I was blind -
>>running without HT anyway).
>
> it looks like you have a very different P10 than the one we have...

Similar but different yes. Mine is P10-772 (iirc), the one mentioned in
the kernel specs is 5??.

>>I also assume it's at this time impossible to use fglrx with resume/suspend?
>
> ...because ours has a NVidia graphics card.

LOL! I wish. fglrx is the ati binary drivers (as asked in the response
from Pavel). According to another friend of mine the answer to this one
is no. He can suspend/resume his notebook as long as he's using the
opensource radeon driver and not fglrx. He's not using a P10 though.

>>With regards to the ACPI code though - I've managed to fix all the
>>warnings and errors, except the one about the ResourceSource error,
>>which according to the spec is optional but iasl insists it's required.
>> No idea what I'm going to do about that. Also not sure whether fixing
>>_WAK to always return a value will actually do something.
>
> I do not remember that i would have to fix any DSDT bugs, everything worked
> with the original DSDT.

There is only really one error that bothers me, and I read somewhere
that the kernel doesn't look at it's value, and that is the _WAK call
that doesn't return a value. Unless that of course changed recently.
And I can't recompile the DSDT due to those ResourceSource required
errors, which seems to be a bug in iasl.

I still haven't managed to finish of the resume process. The screen
comes back up and console switching works but that is just about where
it ends. I don't see any kernel panic messages either. Will RTFM and
fool around some more.

> But it is some time ago that i did use this machine, and due to its
> tremendously huge footprint and very heavy weight, i just used it
> as a Workstation, so not very frequent. Also the dual turbines did their
> share that it was turned off most of the time :-))

It's not _that_ heavy! But yes, it is rather noisy, but nothing
compared to these air-conditioners we have here, or my graphics card in
my desktop at home.

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