On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:15:07PM +0000, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there with any experience of Debian in any of the > following Toshiba laptops? > > Satellite 1800-100, 1800-204S, 1800-314, 1800-354S and > 3000-X4 > > [..snip...] I am not running any of the machines you mention, but I have had 90% success with my Toshiba Satellite 2800-C302. A piece of general advice: if you can get access to one, check what components the machine has. For example, I found that my laptop used an eepro100-based NIC, lucent modem, Yamaha opl3 (?) and S3 Savage IX/MV video card. These are all well supported under linux (in the case of the modem, lucent released drivers which somone is maintaining as an unofficial Debian package. I don't recall the URL OTTOMH.) The only thing I don't have working to my satisfaction is the APM support, but the ACPI looks very promising, once linux user-space support is up to par. (Keep in mind that much of this is due to my lack of time and interest in APM/ACPI; I almost always run my laptop plugged in anyway.) Since the models you mention were released not too long after mine, I suspect you will find similar results. BTW, Toshiba's website is a very good resource for specs, as is http://www.linux-laptop.net/ HTH, -- Mike Alborn <malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org> # pgp keyid: C36DC30B # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
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