Ubuntu and Toshiba

[atheneglaukopis]

I spent all last weekend tinkering with the theme on my beloved 3-year-old laptop. I hugged it and praised it before shutting it down for the night

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My e205

[anonymous]

i have setup Archlinux on my toshiba but the acpi=off doesnt allow me to use the intel drivers. Do you know if there is a fix instead of a work around with this acpi problem?

O and thnx for the ethernet driver. I thought i was gonna have to use wifi(which worked when i tried the 10.04 ubuntu beta and when i installed Arch)

Re: My e205

[atheneglaukopis]

I wish I did! Unfortunately, I'm still working with acpi=off and all its assorted inconveniences.

I tried installing Arch Linux this morning from a cd, but I got error messages saying that it couldn't find the device, so I left it without putting up a fight.

I wish I could help. If you do find a fix rather than a workaround, please let me know. I'm glad at least the ethernet driver was of use to you.

[anonymous]

-hey i found a fix for ubuntu and the toshiba e205's acpi problem. This is the link for the fix:

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9370476#post9370476

-If you want to do it for Archlinux just get the same patch from the link or from the 75th comment from this page and compile it into a kernel usin abs:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679#c75

[atheneglaukopis]

It worked! Thank you so much!

[atheneglaukopis]

Well, except now I've had three occasions this afternoon on which the computer simply froze and refused to unfreeze, and I've lost material I was working on from having to shut down manually with the power button. This is unacceptable.

[anonymous]

lol. well im usin arch and its been fine up til now so...

the fix is in the .35 kernel so i guess youll have to wait or somethin.