Bug#487154: toshset claims to need kernel module, man page says otherwise

[Colin Turner <ct@piglets.com>]

Package: toshset
Version: 1.73-2
Severity: important


I installed Debian Lenny with beta 2 installer on a Toshiba Portege 
R500. toshset is installed, when I run it I get:

required kernel toshiba support not enabled.

The manpage explicitly says no special module is required. It's not 
clear what config option would produce it. I have subsequently 
recompiled the kernel using a patch from noodles to enable bluetooth 
support, but I'd like backlight support and so on if possible.

I see the package is non-maintained, so maybe this is a dead end?

CT.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages toshset depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-5         GCC support library
ii  libpci3                1:3.0.0-4         Linux PCI Utilities (shared librar
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

toshset recommends no packages.

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