Toshiba Portege R700 / R705 Linux Hardware Compatibility Thread

[choylee]

I have a 1.5 Bios version .

Do you advice me to update in 1.6 ?

Many Thanks.

[connect404]

Dont know the answer, going to do an update now. Mine just crashed again with the same apci errors:

These are some new errors when bringing the laptop up:

Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.212797] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213805] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213811] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff8800709427e0), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213937] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213942] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880070942800), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.214488] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS725032A9A360, PC3OC71E, max UDMA/133
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.214510] ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215704] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215709] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff8800709427e0), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215809] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215829] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880070942800), AE_NOT_FOUND

and when its just idling var/log/messages is filling up with this:

Oct 15 13:03:04 pez kernel: [  975.880540] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:03:09 pez kernel: [  980.875789] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:04:54 pez kernel: [ 1085.776650] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:07:29 pez kernel: [ 1240.645532] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:07:59 pez kernel: [ 1270.632053] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:08:29 pez kernel: [ 1300.618543] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:08:54 pez kernel: [ 1325.607321] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:10:24 pez kernel: [ 1415.568035] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:10:59 pez kernel: [ 1450.552562] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:11:29 pez kernel: [ 1480.538681] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:11:49 pez kernel: [ 1500.528504] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:12:24 pez kernel: [ 1535.513560] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:12:59 pez kernel: [ 1570.496939] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:13:39 pez kernel: [ 1610.478892] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

I have a 1.5 Bios version .

Do you advice me to update in 1.6 ?

Many Thanks.

[connect404]

Bios update complete, errors still spamming in the logs. Havent seen a crash .... yet

[choylee]

I going to see the BIOS parameters in order to disable something


LOGS
9.634420] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: Warning: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 35)
[ 9.634447] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 9.682117] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: IPS driver initialized, MCP temp limit 90
[ 14.856928] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 24.835781] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 84.709055] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 119.628788] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
...etc..........;
[13646.387447] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[1266874884.011836] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0xf (was 0x300, writing 0x30a)
[1266874884.011854] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 0x4, writing 0xd4724004)
[1266874884.011862] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100000, writing 0x100006)
[ 10.713992] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 60.630078] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 220.361372] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

[omerp]

I can confirm that kernel 2.6.35 (the one distributed under Maverick) breaks toshset. Turns out a bug has already been submitted about this;

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...et/+bug/644898

For now I know of no workaround except downgrading to a 2.6.32 kernel. Not much of a solution.

[fataki]

Also experiencing the freeze with high cpu/fan usage, but not often.

Can't install the 1.60 Bios update, toshiba service center (and the .zip file I downloaded from the site) claim it is not suitable for my device (R700-11P).

[TNT1]

Dunno if this is the right place to ask, but how do I install Toshiba Utils on a Portege m400? I'm told if I install this, the hardware buttons will work.

[longreach]

Dunno if this is the right place to ask, but how do I install Toshiba Utils on a Portege m400? I'm told if I install this, the hardware buttons will work.

Well, it's a thread on the R700, so not really the right place no

You may find something useful here:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/toshutils

I have never used these but I might give them a go myself.

[longreach]

.... ok I tried the toshutils but does not appear to work on the R700, the website mentions it probably won't for the newer models coz of BIOS stuff. (I know, I'm very technical with my descriptions)

[omerp]

.... ok I tried the toshutils but does not appear to work on the R700, the website mentions it probably won't for the newer models coz of BIOS stuff. (I know, I'm very technical with my descriptions)

Yes, to the best of my understanding, toshutils was designed to work with the old power-management interface, APM -- whereas toshset can talk to the newer interface, ACPI.