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c00lwaterz
May 1st, 2010, 05:36 AM
I just want to know people who use Toshiba Machines.
Let me start:

Toshiba portege m900 :lolflag:

Irihapeti
May 1st, 2010, 05:39 AM
Toshiba Satellite A10 which was given to me. Originally had 256 MB RAM; I installed another 512MB. It has a 30GB drive which really needs to be replaced but I don't keep anything important on it.

wllkmbll
May 1st, 2010, 05:54 AM
I'm using a toshiba satellite L305 and I'm pretty happy with it.

CytotoxicTcell
May 1st, 2010, 06:06 AM
A505 here wireless dosent work, but i am wired its fine for now but i plan to buy a system76 later this year (i hope)

i had a macbook pro last year but i sold it as i hate macs. It was a graduation gift but i dont care I hate Macs.

c00lwaterz
May 1st, 2010, 06:17 AM
most ubuntu user who use toshiba is satellite. maybe satellite is more compatible for ubuntu than portege. i have prob in high temp, fan not working and wifi.

I also notice that when it comes to brand few ubuntu user use toshiba or maybe I just don't knew it.?

cbecker78
May 3rd, 2010, 10:34 PM
Tosh Satellite 1805 circa the year 2000 (installed ubuntu server 8.04 with gnome and xorg graphical environment (which was a small miracle))
Tosh Satellite L505 -a few months old, running 9.1 Ubuntu and occasionally cussing at the fan


@c00Lwaterz: I wouldn't say the satellite is more compatable. Not a whole lot works out of the box thanks to the new BIOS toshiba is using these days. but most things are relatively easy fixes. I will say ditto on all of the issues you mentioned on the satellite L505-though have everything working for the time being.

lisati
May 3rd, 2010, 10:36 PM
Current laptop: Toshiba Satellite M200, triple boot 9.04, 10.04 and Vista.

I used to have 7.04 on a Satellite A100 which I replaced with WinXP before giving it to a nephew.

Ntacman
May 4th, 2010, 12:30 AM
Satellite A55-S1064 owner here. Everything works like a charm. On the live CD.(Special effects included.) - Tested with ubuntu 8.10

Specs -
Intel Celeron processor
1 gig of ram
Windows 7 Home Premium

c00lwaterz
May 4th, 2010, 02:25 AM
Anyone who use toshiba protege (not old model) with success?

c00lwaterz
May 4th, 2010, 02:26 AM
Tosh Satellite 1805 circa the year 2000 (installed ubuntu server 8.04 with gnome and xorg graphical environment (which was a small miracle))
Tosh Satellite L505 -a few months old, running 9.1 Ubuntu and occasionally cussing at the fan


@c00Lwaterz: I wouldn't say the satellite is more compatable. Not a whole lot works out of the box thanks to the new BIOS toshiba is using these days. but most things are relatively easy fixes. I will say ditto on all of the issues you mentioned on the satellite L505-though have everything working for the time being.

what version of bios you use? i have 1.9 from their website

graven80
May 4th, 2010, 02:40 AM
Toshiba A10 Satellite Pro that I got as a spares or repair for £10. Found a replacement motherboard on Ebay for £40. Added 1Gb RAM for another £15 and a wireless network card £5.

It now has Ubuntu 9.10 (Gnome) installed and runs like a dream :D

CytotoxicTcell
May 6th, 2010, 07:17 AM
here is an update with my toshiba A505-S6980

Wireless works now thanks to ndiswrapper, i get about 4-5 hours of battery life.

cap10Ibraim
May 6th, 2010, 10:01 AM
Toshiba Satellite U405-S2911):P

HermanAB
May 6th, 2010, 10:15 AM
U500.

Bad video support - Nvidia driver causes the machine to crash.
Bad fan support - sometimes need to reboot to get fan to work.
Otherwise OK

seenthelite
May 6th, 2010, 12:10 PM
Satellite P500 PSPG8A-01U004. nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M]
Atheros AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet. Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100

Working perfectly on Ubuntu 10.04. Including suspend and resume from suspend.

Tkdboy
May 6th, 2010, 12:37 PM
Satellite L500-128!!!

CompyTheInsane
May 6th, 2010, 12:42 PM
Satellite A105-S4284 - I recently adopted this laptop because the original owner gave up on it. Its LCD screen displays only white.

Ubuntu 10.04 works well on it.

c00lwaterz
May 6th, 2010, 12:43 PM
wow! most of you guys are satellite. what is with satellite? why not qosmio or portege? why most of you is satellite? is it cheaper? or design? or anything special?:guitar::guitar:

Tkdboy
May 6th, 2010, 12:45 PM
Satellite L500-128!!!
:popcorn:

MindSz
May 6th, 2010, 02:31 PM
Toshiba Satellite as well (don't really remember the model number. It's the 13.1 inch one).

spupy
May 6th, 2010, 03:37 PM
Got an old Satellite A110-206. Its scratched, overheating, battery holds 50min, little peaces of plastic were left behind when I re-assembled it last time. It had a near-fatal manufacturing error that I found about after ~3 years of usage. It has a single core 1.4GHz... Celeron M. :|
On the bright side it has full Linux compatibility. Which was total luck since when I bought it I didn't know what Linux was.
The keyboard is the best keyboard I have ever used. I was even thinking of ripping the keyboard in the future and converting it to a standalone one. It's just so good, nothing has ever come close.
Also, with Linux it supports a 1920x1080 monitor, although the ATI docs claim it doesn't. :)
But I won't buy toshiba again; this is a cheap model really, but the hardware suck so bad, and it's so ugly. I still love my laptop. I will have hard time parting with it.

xpod
May 6th, 2010, 04:51 PM
Re: Toshiba Users

I do have a couple of rescued Toshiba`s just now although none of us are actually using any of them. One is a Satellite L40 and the other an even older 4600. Both work ok although the L40 needs the power jack re-soldered or possibly even replaced completely.

chappajar
May 7th, 2010, 02:23 AM
Anyone who use toshiba portege (not old model) with success?

I don't know if it's an ''old model'' but I'm using a Portege M500.

The fingerprint scanner doesn't work (I haven't tried to fix it, I wouldn't use it anyway)

I used to get a popping noise when power saving cut sound after 10 sec of disuse, but fixed that.

Had a little trouble getting the resolution on an external monitor correct, but the built in monitor is fine.

The rest worked fine without any tweaking.

lisati
May 7th, 2010, 02:32 AM
wow! most of you guys are satellite. what is with satellite? why not qosmio or portege? why most of you is satellite? is it cheaper? or design? or anything special?

I don't know about the merits of the different lines. For some reason, all three of the Toshiba laptops I've have had anything to do with have turned out to be Satellites. It wasn't a conscious choice on my part on the two I've purchased, and the other was an older one a family member had "inherited" from a business they were involved with.

CiscoPenguin
May 7th, 2010, 02:46 AM
Satellite with everything working great!! Just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid last night.

Little Bones
May 7th, 2010, 03:26 AM
Toshiba Satellite L300, runs well

witeshark17
May 7th, 2010, 04:06 AM
My bro has a Satellite L20 with 1.5 GB memory and a 1.6 Pentium M processor. It has a 40GB hard drive; 10.04 LTS was installed last weekend :guitar:

magmon
May 7th, 2010, 04:09 AM
Toshiba mini NB205. It works. Not much else can be said lol.

markinf
May 7th, 2010, 04:10 AM
Toshiba Satellite X205-s7483

cbecker78
May 10th, 2010, 10:21 PM
what version of bios you use? i have 1.9 from their website

I think 1.5 Insyde H2O is/was the latest version of the BIOS available for my model on the toshiba website. That is the one I downloaded and installed. I know there were some later versions available at that time for lappy's using the AMD chipset... This was a couple of months ago...

Shpongle
May 10th, 2010, 10:25 PM
I have a toshiba equium , the model before the satellites came out , i think ,never had any major problems , most of which was user error and not linux / ubuntu. i had an issue with headphone jacks on intripid , easily fixed . then on jaunty too i think , on karmic and lucid it works great.

Ebere
May 10th, 2010, 10:52 PM
I have inherited a toshiba tecra a4-s313

It has a bad hard drive and bad cd drive. But it will still boot and run.

Has vista installed.

I am going to get new drives for it, then install Linux Mint.

I have already tried the Mint LiveCD, and it does work. But it's pretty flakey, since both of the drives are bad.

The laptop also has a sound problem. Seems to be hardware related, because it was the same in both vista and Mint.

Sound is sometimes choppy, sometimes skips.

Can't wait to get those drives in it and really test it with a full install !

Oh, it has 2 gigs of ram.

The latest bios available for it. (2005. I believe) I wish there were a newer bios that would allow it to boot from usb.

Built in wireless, cat5, dialup, 3 usb 2.0 ports, a pcmcia, firewire, vga, parallel, media card reader, etc.

Man, this thing, as old as it is, will still be better than my desktop, if the drives work, and there are no other problems !

I used it, (In windows vista), to download updates for Mint, at the library. Which I then brought home, and installed to the Mint install on my desktop.

dmglouis
May 11th, 2010, 04:48 AM
I have a Toshiba A305-S6864. It works well enough. Battery life is ****, though, I get a little less than 2 hours. And resume from suspend doesn't work (so suspend doesn't really either I guess).

BUT, I don't care much about these things, because ever since Jaunty, my wifi has been on the fritz (I think it was something do with WPA2), so much so that I never used the Ubuntu partition. Along comes Lucid, and bam, solid wifi! And alse, I've noticed that most embedded youtube videos no longer flicker for me, which was a longstanding issue.

Cathhsmom
May 11th, 2010, 05:04 AM
I have Satellite P205-S6337.

Maxpolaris
May 11th, 2010, 05:53 AM
Satellite A105 S2101 1.6GHz Celeron 60G HD 2G Ram CD/RW DVD ATI Radeon Express 200M Atheros Wireless 4 USB TruBrite Display. CD doesn't work reliably. Ubuntu 9.1 installed in Windows with 16Gig file. Ubuntu freezes up all the time within 2or 3 minutes from desktop. If I boot from Recovey Mode I get dumped into a Terminal and it seems to run indefinatly from a text shell.

Rususeruru
May 11th, 2010, 05:59 AM
NB205 works alright, no sound output w/out headphones and AHCI must be set to compatibility for Lucid.

davidgagne80
May 11th, 2010, 06:17 AM
Toshiba Satellite L300-o4p

Bought it because it was cheap for what was in it, 4 gigs ram, 320 Gig HD... I've been using Ubuntu on it for over 1 year, I had some issues with resuming from suspend on Jaunty, got fixed when I disabled my wired network card from the bios, and now works just fine on Lucid! It's a pretty good machine for linux, completely got rid of Vista on it, that was too slow and stupid!

nogoodreason
May 16th, 2010, 12:25 PM
Could anyone please confirm whether the Toshiba Satellite T130-16W (http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/toshiba-satellite-t130-16w-04127278-pdt.html) would be compatible with Ubuntu? One of the main appeals of this laptop is its great battery life, so as long as that wouldn't be impaired and it could run day-to-day tasks like connecting to WiFi smoothly I'd be happy. [My separate thread about this can be found here] (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9307660#post9307660)

The specs are below:
CPU Intel® Pentium® Processor SU4100
- 1.30 GHz
- 800 MHz FSB
- 2 MB L2 Cache

RAM 3GB installed DDR3 RAM (800 MHz)
- 4GB maximum RAM capacity
Graphics card Mobile Intel® GMA 4500M
Screen type Widescreen LCD
Screen resolution - WXGA
- 1366 x 768 pixels
Screen size 13.3"
Screen features LED backlighting, 16:9 aspect ratio
Hard drive 320GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical disk drive None
Memory card reader 1 x 5-in-1 Bridge Media slot (supports SD™ Cards up to 16 GB, Memory Stick® up to 256 MB, Memory Stick Pro™ up to 4 GB, MultiMedia Card™ up to 1 GB and xD-Picture Card™ up to 2 GB)
USB 3 x USB 2.0 (including 1 supporting Sleep-and-Charge)
FireWire No
Modem/Ethernet 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n WLAN

In future I may move up to 4GB RAM and a better hard drive once SSDs drop in price.

Rodney9
May 16th, 2010, 11:03 PM
I bought a Toshiba Satellite L500 Laptop last week with 500Gb hard drive and Intel Dual Core 2.20GHz. It has 2Gb Ram, Intel Video chipset and Realtek wireless.

I installed Ubuntu 10.4 64bit on it and it works perfectly.

Sound, wireless (after updating), sleep everything I have tried so far works beautifully and looks beautiful.

Rodney

1roxtar
May 17th, 2010, 04:54 AM
I have a Toshiba Satellite L455D-S5976 (AMD Sempron SI-42 Processor, 2gigs RAM, ATI Radeon Graphics) that I brought brand new at the beginning of the year. It came with Windows 7 that I tried out for about two days only and completely replaced it with 9.10 Karmic Koala, then later replaced with 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I even did away with the recovery partition because I wasn't going back to Windows, EVER!!! I proudly peeled off the Win7 sticker and replaced it with a shiny "Powered By Ubuntu" sticker. Call me a fan-boy, but I'm Ubuntu 4LIFE!!!!

itsageo
May 17th, 2010, 05:05 AM
Surprising, I am the only "m" series laptop on here thus far.

Satellite m305
dual 2.2 ghz
4 gigs ram
250 gig hard drive
A couple of years old now, but works great and lightning fast, despite having a buttload of different os' on here.

Vista
XP
XP Pirated Pro
XP Black
XP 64 <---- Worst driver support ever
Kubuntu
Linux mint 64

Now Ubuntu 64 and Windows 7 64.

lisati
May 17th, 2010, 05:10 AM
Surprising, I am the only "m" series laptop on here thus far.

Not quite: Satellite M200......

itsageo
May 17th, 2010, 07:35 AM
Must have missed that one.

Lavahead
May 17th, 2010, 08:24 AM
Satellite P105-S6147 currently running 9.10 flawlessly. Will be installing 10.04 soon.

beavis5551
May 17th, 2010, 09:05 AM
Toshiba Satellite L300-1HP

C2D @ 2,1 Ghz
4gb RAM
2 x 250 GB HDD
ATI HD 3470 GPU
15.4" semi-glossy screen
hooked up to external 20" Monitor

romping around with windows 7 home premium 64bit.

:)

Disclaimer:

Ubuntu moved to the new Lenovo R500 I got ;-)

Water_Spirit
May 17th, 2010, 11:30 AM
Satellite 2250CDT/6.0

Celeron 600 MHz. 128 MB Memory. 2.5 MB Video Display.
5.59 GB Hard Disk.
Windows XP SP2 and lucid puppy dual boot.

nogoodreason
May 17th, 2010, 11:34 AM
Glad to see so many success stories - but are there any cases of serious problems I should know about before investing in a Satellite T130-16W (http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/toshiba-satellite-t130-16w-04127278-pdt.html)?
(I imagine the safe bet would be to install Karmic Koala on it until Lucid gets a little more Intel-stable)

jeffreyldavidson
May 23rd, 2010, 05:14 AM
Toshiba L505 GS6200 will not boot the live disk. It will start but then just hangs before getting to any config screen.

Rodney9
May 23rd, 2010, 06:39 AM
I bought a Toshiba Satellite L500 Laptop last week with 500Gb hard drive and Intel Dual Core 2.20GHz. It has 2Gb Ram, Intel Video chipset and Realtek wireless.

I installed Ubuntu 10.4 64bit on it and it works perfectly.

Sound, wireless (after updating), sleep everything I have tried so far works beautifully and looks beautiful.

Rodney

Well after the last updates wireless stopped working , so now I am using Xubuntu, so far so good.

Megarock
June 20th, 2010, 03:03 AM
so im thinking of buying this little beast (http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=460550)

problem is, i need full 3d acceleration since i will be getting it for 3d modeling (obviously some gaming along the way wont hurt:lolflag:), and unless i'm missing something, nVidia (unlike the ATi sh-- crap im stuck in right now) has that covered, right?

any other hardware problem that may arise on it?

as of now im on a Satellite Pro L300D. Beside the aforementioned ati failure, EVERYTHING works to perfection (both Ubuntu and Fedora user)

ve4cib
June 20th, 2010, 03:40 AM
I've been using a Satellite A70 since Ubuntu 5.04. It's had a variety of problems over the years, but seems to be working well with 10.04 now. Upgraded the RAM from the original 512MB to 1.5GB a few months back. The HD is only 60GB, but it's mostly a server and internet client these days anyway.

kamaboko
June 20th, 2010, 03:44 AM
Toshiba S1310 laptop

sparky64
June 20th, 2010, 03:59 PM
Got a satellite A100-998 (media version)
running zenwalk-kde at the moment on it runs like a dream until you use the battery.

jeffreyldavidson
June 22nd, 2010, 12:55 AM
I bought a Toshiba L505 GS6000 and am not happy with it. It has an Intel i3 with 3 gig of memory. I am going to bump it up to 6, but overall not as fast as I would like.

Cannot install Ubuntu 10.4. I previously had a Dell and was much happier with it and never had a problem with Ubuntu. Install hangs and I can install with acpi=off but then I cannot boot once installed. Just a pain.

I will go back to a Dell in the future. It is just much sturdier.

DillyT33
June 22nd, 2010, 04:41 AM
A505

BUT!

I am having issues with installing Ubuntu on it.

So if anyone has Ubuntu installed and there touch pad is working please message me and tell me how you configured yours?

kamaboko
June 22nd, 2010, 04:42 AM
Funny, I couldn't install any flavor of Linux on my S1310 prior to Lucid Lynx.

squee
June 22nd, 2010, 06:10 AM
Satellite T130

not happy with ubuntu on it. Other than that it's amazing. over 8 hours bat life on Win7, but only 4 on 10.04 because I can't dim the screen.

Thumbs need to be taken out of asses, but I'm not sure whose.

Kixtosh
June 22nd, 2010, 11:27 PM
1) Already tried Ubuntu and Xubuntu 9.10 on my Portégé 3490CT

It's almost ten years old, and came with Win 98SE, but I changed to W2K within a year or so. It was very stable with W2K, actually, and the only problem was at least five minutes to boot up ... Yikes! So I would continually leave it in standby mode, rather than ever switching it off.

Well, W2K is no longer supported by MS, so I tried Karmic Koala on it. If I remember right, it worked almost immediately, without any trouble, including an ancient Netgear PC Card wireless B device. Xubuntu is slightly faster than Ubuntu, but it doesn't make much difference.

Things that don't work are all the keyboard shortcuts that use the Fn shortcut key, and I'm not sure about the fan working properly. The additional mouse buttons (there are two of them) don't work either.

The maximum RAM possible is 256MB on this, so I may eventually just switch to Puppy Linux, and use it as a lean mean browsing machine! It's very light, very portable, and has proven itself to be very robust as well (although I had to change the hard drive after dropping it once).

I'll be trying 10.04 Lucid Lynx one of these days!

2) My next project will be my newer (about three years old) Portégé R205, currently using Win XP. Again, it's extremely stable for me, but start up times are just unacceptable, so I have to use standby all the time again so that I don't have to wait. I probably only fully turn it off about a dozen times a year (actually: only when a Windows update message requests a restart).

The issue I will have with this is that it uses a built in AuthenTec fingerprint reader, and I've become addicted to it!

So my concerns will be:

- The touchpad.
- The fingerprint reader.
- The Fn keyboard shortcuts.
- The fan working properly to cool the CPU.

alaca
July 29th, 2010, 04:06 AM
Toshiba Satellite L20 with Centrino 1.73 G , RAM 1.5G
Have wireless problems with Lucid and Maverick WPA and WPA2 don't work
wireless card Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2]

TNT1
July 29th, 2010, 08:59 AM
My wife's on a portege M400:D

Jaecyn42
July 29th, 2010, 11:24 AM
Toshiba Satellite L35-S2161 ):P

RJ12
August 1st, 2010, 03:14 AM
Toshiba L455D-S5976 from the beginning of the year. I can only get wireless to work though with NDISWrapper which is really holding me back!:(

dkstoney
August 1st, 2010, 06:23 AM
My rig:

Toshiba L645-1036x


Intel® Core™ i5-450M processor 2.40GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.66GHz
Ubuntu 10 LTS (Netbook Edition) 32-bit
4096MB (2048MBx2) DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM expandable to 8192MB
500GB (SATA) with shock absorbers HDD
DVD SuperMulti Double Layer Drive (DVD ± RW/RAM)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5145 up to 1275MB total available graphics (ext 512MB VRAM)
Built in Web Camera
Bluetooth V2.1 w/ Enhanced Data Rate

The only problem I'm having is getting the Bluetooth adapter to work. When I installed and the disk was in, the Bluetooth icon appeared at the top and was functioning quite well, but it hasn't worked since after reboot.

My BIOS is InsydeH20 version 1.4 and there is no newer version. I have followed the advice of a couple of threads here to no avail--even trying the omnibook method. The darned thing came with Windows 7 preinstalled, but I just couldn't live with myself and got Ubuntu--just like on my desktop.

Is anyone else having the Bluetooth problem using the same BIOS?

andymorton
August 1st, 2010, 12:09 PM
Toshiba Tecra A9. It's served me well over the last three years or so, except the battery has decided to give up. It'll last about 30 mins these days. I only use this machine at home so I just keep it plugged in.

supergrav
August 3rd, 2010, 08:38 AM
Hello,
I'm using satellite L505 with core i5-m430 and 4GB ram since March and everything works just fine without any need for tricks or workarounds. The only problem I'm still facing is the bluetooth module that I never got it to work...

Cabalbl4
August 5th, 2010, 02:45 PM
Satellite A210P for me. No problems before 10.04 (only needed to compile omnibook driver for bluetooth to work). 10.04 kernel has a lot of issues with wlan ATH5K driver, so I rolled back to 9.10.

Cymrodor
August 17th, 2010, 05:22 AM
I've just installed 10.04 Netbook on an old Satellite A100.

The keyboard is Canadian, Ubuntu is in Welsh, and the locale is South Korea. I'll be very surprised if my Ubuntu experience is all smooth sailing. Good to see a few success stories here though, so I'm feeling confident.

Mark F
October 17th, 2010, 11:06 AM
Hi

Toshiba R630-13F

CPU 4 core-Intel i3 2.27 GHz

Experiences:

Installing 10.04 went like a dream. Webcam worked, wireless fine. Took a bit of searching to get the audio jack working but backported update solved it. Battery life ~4h but brand new laptop so not bedded in yet.

Upgrade to 10.10 went fine. After running for a bit though started getting errors when rebooting or suspending. Having to hard-reset. Overheating messages in messages log, kernel log etc. OK I thought I'll do a fresh install of 10.10. Then realised that since I nuked Win7 off the drive with the intial 10.04 install I no longer get the option of entering the BIOS. Tried ALL combinations of F-keys, esc, del to no avail. When I first booked the laptop with Win7 on it I could get in fine. I recall when I wanted to install Ubuntu I ended up having to install installer on Windows to get it booting into the LiveCD. HDD is encrypted and supervisor BIOS password is installed.

I've searched loads on this forum and general help forum and I cant see anyone having a problem exactly like this one

Any clues? Any help gratefully appreciated.

Mark

Easy Limits
October 17th, 2010, 07:48 PM
Got me a Satellite P205D-S8804. Great little laptop. Came with Vista. Once I installed Ubuntu on it I haven't gone back to Vista.

Kixtosh
October 19th, 2010, 12:20 AM
...
Then realised that since I nuked Win7 off the drive with the intial 10.04 install I no longer get the option of entering the BIOS. Tried ALL combinations of F-keys, esc, del to no avail.
...Mark, to the best of my knowledge (and for once, I'm actually quite confident about this!) I don't think it is possible to disable the option of entering BIOS simply by nuking your original W7 installation. The BIOS is totally independent of any O.S., whether it be Windows or Linux. In fact, you should be able to access the BIOS even without any O.S. installed. It is the "basic input/output system", which can even work without any hard drive or RAM present. Its function is to identify system devices (video display card, keyboard, mouse, hard disk, CD/DVD drive and other hardware).

For any Toshiba laptop I have ever used, you access BIOS by holding down ESC while booting up. I think you have until the Toshiba splash screen no longer displays to do so, but if you're not seeing that splash screen for some reason, you could even press the ESC key before pushing the power button to start up. You should then be prompted to "Check system. Then press [F1] key", or something similar, to enter the BIOS settings.

Finally, if you are having problems with Maverick, you could continue to use Lucid Lynx, which is the Long Term Support release anyway.

snahaw0
November 6th, 2010, 03:28 PM
Toshiba Satellite U405 now with Ubuntu 10.10 (I am new to Linux outside of firewalls and PBX systems.) On a positive note, my fan is working better than with Vista Not much of a surprise there!) I am still trying to find drivers for my DVD burner. The drive reads, but will not write. I joined the forums today to start searching for suggestions, but thought I would introduce myself in the Toshiba users first.

c00lwaterz
November 7th, 2010, 02:56 PM
Toshiba Satellite U405 now with Ubuntu 10.10 (I am new to Linux outside of firewalls and PBX systems.) On a positive note, my fan is working better than with Vista Not much of a surprise there!) I am still trying to find drivers for my DVD burner. The drive reads, but will not write. I joined the forums today to start searching for suggestions, but thought I would introduce myself in the Toshiba users first.

Hello snahaw0, Welcome to the community :guitar:

Goldfissh
November 7th, 2010, 03:01 PM
I run Ubuntu on my desktop, but I have a Toshiba A100-027 which I have installed Backtrack on. Works great!

c00lwaterz
November 8th, 2010, 06:28 AM
I run Ubuntu on my desktop, but I have a Toshiba A100-027 which I have installed Backtrack on. Works great!

did you experience some issues on fan? or any other problems?

Goldfissh
November 8th, 2010, 10:57 AM
did you experience some issues on fan? or any other problems?

Nope, haven't had any problems with the fan or cooling at all. The fan starts up when it's needed, and generally the system stays pretty cool.

Only problem I've experienced is when shutting the system down using the poweroff command, it shuts down the desktop interface and then just hangs there with a black screen until I hold the power button to turn it off completely. That doesn't happen too often though.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it!

c00lwaterz
November 8th, 2010, 11:05 AM
Nope, haven't had any problems with the fan or cooling at all. The fan starts up when it's needed, and generally the system stays pretty cool.

Only problem I've experienced is when shutting the system down using the poweroff command, it shuts down the desktop interface and then just hangs there with a black screen until I hold the power button to turn it off completely. That doesn't happen too often though.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it!

then you are lucky :P most of us or some experience problem in fan that makes our laptop high temperature.

Goldfissh
November 8th, 2010, 11:57 AM
then you are lucky :P most of us or some experience problem in fan that makes our laptop high temperature.

What exactly is the problem? Does the fan just not work at all or what?

My fan is totally fine, I guess I am lucky then!

c00lwaterz
November 8th, 2010, 12:13 PM
What exactly is the problem? Does the fan just not work at all or what?

My fan is totally fine, I guess I am lucky then!

the fan doesn't work automatically when it is hot. I should suspend it for the fan to work. in vista everything is fine. maybe driver (i don't know exactly). some users experience this one. having no solution for the meantime.

andy95
December 3rd, 2010, 05:18 AM
10.10 works fine on a P205D-S7802 except for the occasional wifi problem.

sammiev
December 3rd, 2010, 05:30 AM
Toshiba Satellite L500 with all systems working but the built in dial up modem. Have a USB dial up modem working well. GL :)

c00lwaterz
December 3rd, 2010, 01:41 PM
wow nice and toshiba users are now being recognize. :D