Toshiba Satellite 1905S303

[Erico M Mendonca <erico-cz9lu//xMc+vYRxJAoKWRg@public.gmane.org>]

Hello all,

    Continuing my ongoing saga with this notebook...

    I'm now running kernel 2.4.23.0-1mdk with it.

    Not much has changed, but there was a little improvement: cpufreq 
(p4-clockmod) works:
Nov 23 01:59:26 docmobile kernel: cpufreq: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand 
Clock Modulation available

but speedstep-ich doesn't:
Nov 23 01:58:48 docmobile kernel: cpufreq: Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) for 
this chipset not (yet) available.

and my /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info:
processor id:            0
acpi id:                 0
bus mastering control:   no
power management:        yes
throttling control:      no
performance management:  no
limit interface:         no


Anyway, the worst problem I have now is the system hanging whenever I 
try to switch the video-out (Fn-F5), which didn't happen with an older 
kernel (2.4.21 from Mandrake 9.1). It appears to generate a kernel 
oops/panic, but I cannot get to it, since this notebook doesn't have a 
serial port, and the one usb serial console patch I found was for kernel 
2.6.

I did try a few different kernel 2.6 revisions (from test7-test9) but 
the behavior is the same. I also tried at least half a dozen 2.4.22 
kernels, with the same result.

Any suggestions on solving this problem are welcome... for now the only 
thing I think would help would be to try 2.6 with an usb serial console 
patch to try and get the kernel panic/oops.

Len, you mentioned earlier that I could implement a thermal_zone through 
AML, do you have any pointers or code examples?

-- 

-- Erico Mendonca
Techisa do Brasil





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