Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian
I have the Tosh' Sat' 1415. A bit lighter would be my only wish for it -
that and getting 'suspend-to-disk' to work. Seems very sturdy (my vendor,
COSTCO, gives a six-month return on the system and I am knocking it around
a bit just to make sure it *is* sturdy) and the price is definitely very
good (i 've seen c. $950 on the i'net). Re: kb problem, the following seems
to do it:
apt-get install xkbset
xkbset sl 1 -b
xdbset exp sl
Then put the last two lines in '.profile' and forget about it.
Tom Arnall
Information Technology Specialist
Redwood Sciences Laboratory
USDA Forest Service
Arcata, CA
USA
Torbjorn
Pettersson To: Niels Heinemann <niels@ortschmiede.de>
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tobbe@strul.nu
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Niels Heinemann <niels@ortschmiede.de> writes:
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> howdy.
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> Torbjorn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu> wrote:
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> > All toshiba keyboards, but for one I used 5 years ago, have
> > been "broken".
>
> i wrote of it - but in my portege 4010 it seems to be fixed. it's
> about a half year old. but if you recognize that behavior ...
>
> > There is a small patch for pc_keyb.c in the kernel floating
> > around which fixes this
>
> ... xkbset does the job too. there are various howtos, see
> linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/
>
Note that:
1) It is not in debian/stable
2) It s an X program, so there is still the console
Sure, the problem is fixable, but my gripe with it is that if I
were paying out of my own pocket for a laptop, I would choose a
product that I didn't need to hack to get basic functionality,
like working keyboard, out of, unless it had very significant
advantages in some other regard.
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Best regards
Torbjörn
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