Talk:Toshiba Satellite A210 (701)

Issues on Toshiba A210 running 64-bit Ubuntu

Flash

• Installing Flash Player 9 on 64 bit Linux
  • apt-get install nspluginwrapper

Codecs

• Codecs - Synaptic automatically trying to install
  • GStreamer extra plugins
  • GSStreamer ffmpeg video plugin.

Skype 64bit

• Skype

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2
wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i --force-all skype-install.deb

Upgrade

1. Add package repositries to source lists (either use dotdeb, or Debian unstable)

echo "deb http://dotdeb.netmirror.org/ stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

echo "deb-src http://dotdeb.netmirror.org/ stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

LAMP

• apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 apache2 libapache2-svn libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-xsl php5-curl php5-sqlite3 imagemagick librsvg2-bin

Add / Remove

Where is this gui functionality found?

Its the first item in the applications menu --nad 10:00, 5 June 2008 (NZST)

Nad/A210

Most stuff has gone smoothly, ethernet, wifi, bluetooth, audio are all fine. All software and settings such as email and pidgin have moved over fine. Skype has installed with no problem using Sven's instructions above.

I have some problems with video though. With just the default community drivers, both screens are detected with correct resolutions, but the laptop panel flickers with horizontal lines, and the external monitor has a fuzzy one-pixel horizontal jitter, extended desktop almost works but forgets the monitor position settings. Enabling the proprietary drivers solves the flicker and jitter, but prevents the external monitor from being recognised and can only be set to the maximum resolution of the laptop panel, and extended desktop is disabled.

USB drives

Can you test by reducing the number of drives to see if it is an issue with one drive in particular? --Sven 15:37, 9 June 2008 (NZST)

Xorg.conf options

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "card0"
  Driver      "fglrx"
  Option       "no_accel" "no"
  Option       "no_dri" "no"
  Option       "DynamicClocks" "on"
  Option       "mtrr" "on"
  Option       "DesktopSetup" "Single"
  Option       "ScreenOverlap" "0"
  Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
  Option       "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
  Option       "VideoOverlay" "on"
  Option       "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
  Option       "CenterMode" "off"
  Option       "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
  Option       "Stereo" "off"
  Option       "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
  Option       "FSAAEnable" "no"
  Option       "FSAAScale" "1"
  Option       "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
  Option       "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
  Option       "UseFastTLS" "0"
  Option       "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
  Option       "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
  Option       "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
  Option       "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
  Option       "PowerState" "1"
  BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

I have a xorg.conf which is working well with proper resolutions, but has no DRI - other have this problem too.