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our research group got a (used) Toshiba 440 CDT notebook from the
central computing resources group of the university. We promptly
installed SUSE 5.3 on it - it works fine.

However, we did not yet get the manual for the notebook (and kind of
despaired in requesting it again and again). So I had to guess at most
hardware components (and apparently got the important ones
right). There are still two problems I have. First, sound support is
not working. I compiled Soundblaster-16 into the kernel, with default
settings for all the parameters, but do not get any sound (and cat'ing
a file to /dev/sound tells me "no such device", although the file
exists).

Secondly, I'd like to do "suspend to disk" operations. Suspend to
memory works fine (after compiling APM support into the kernel), but
the computer still draws some power in this state. Is there some way
to suspend to disk? We left a small (~64 MB for 48 MB RAM) partition
for this purpose, but I have no idea on how to prepare the partition
and how to change the setting in the BIOS...I don't even now on how to
get into the BIOS.

Thanks,

       Stephan

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Good luck,
  Axel

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I have a 440CDX, and the linux-laptops page mentioned around had specific
information about it. The only thing I can't get working currently is the
PCMCIA. I'm a bit of a newbie to linux, and I guess a laptop is not the
ideal introduction, but I just can't get PCMCIA to work :(

The PCMCIA chipset on the tosh is supposed to be something like ToPIC95,
but in the PCMCIA documentation it says that only two other (something like
i82365 or TCIC-2) chipsets are supported, and neither of these work...

If you get it working *please* tell me how (assuming it has the same
structure to the 440CDX, which would seem reasonable) - I have tried
recompiling the pcmcia sources, etc, etc. I'm using SuSE 5.2 BTW.

Good luck anyhow !
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Neil

Quote:>I have a 440CDX, and the linux-laptops page mentioned around had specific
>information about it. The only thing I can't get working currently is the
>PCMCIA. I'm a bit of a newbie to linux, and I guess a laptop is not the
>ideal introduction, but I just can't get PCMCIA to work :(

>The PCMCIA chipset on the tosh is supposed to be something like ToPIC95,
>but in the PCMCIA documentation it says that only two other (something like
>i82365 or TCIC-2) chipsets are supported, and neither of these work...

>If you get it working *please* tell me how (assuming it has the same
>structure to the 440CDX, which would seem reasonable) - I have tried
>recompiling the pcmcia sources, etc, etc. I'm using SuSE 5.2 BTW.

moment (posting from my desktop workstation), and do not remember the
details. It basically involved editing some config files in /etc and
/etc/pcmcia and running SUSEConfig. If you want net support, you do
need to edit the corresponding file in /etc/pcmcia (it does have a
recognizable name...). Normal settings for the network will be ignored
by the driver.

Bye,

     Stephan

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