Comments on: Gentoo Linux – Toshiba Satellite X200/X205

By: Quantum

Quantum — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:14:11 +0000

The laptop I have contained two hard disks /dev/sda included turbo memory where as /dev/sdb did not. To the best of my knowledge turbo memory is a Windows only feature. Since I am dual booting the laptop I have left Windows Vista on the drive with turbo memory as it can take advantage of this to increase performance. My Gentoo install on /dev/sdb is just using a standard hard drive that does not have turbo memory fitted.

By: Erode

Erode — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:13:01 +0000

How did you get to have the turbo memory mapped to /dev/sda ?

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:26:50 +0000

Hi Quantum,

I have a Toshiba Satellite U300, which also has a Taiyo Yuden EYTFXCS bluetooth chip. I have been looking everywhere for information on how to solve the problem with it now being detected in linux. I run Ubuntu Linux instead of Gentoo, but even so, it would be very very useful if you could post a little more information on how you did this.

cheers

By: Quantum

Quantum — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:54:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip I’ve managed to get my bluetooth working at long last. The Gentoo bluetooth guide includes details of additional system level settings. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml

This forum post goes into detail about gnome integration http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-636449-highlight-gnome+obex.html

By: DVSoftware

DVSoftware — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:57:28 +0000

install the omnibook driver and load it with “modprobe omnibook ectype=12″
that will activate the bluetooth module

By: Quantum

Quantum — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:02:53 +0000

It would seem that bluetooth isnt supported in CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA in the kernel. There do seem to be a few random accounts of patches for other models of toshiba laptop. The downside is that the patch will not work with a 64bit system (which i run).

Hopefully this will be resolved in a newer kernel, once that happens bluetooth should mainly work. There is a guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mobile_phone%2C_Bluetooth_and_GNOME which will only be of use with a patched kernel.

The bluetooth seems to be a Taiyo Yuden EYTFXCS Class 2 Bluetooth Module. I’d be interested to hear if you get it working.

See http://www.deltanova.co.uk/linux/gentoo-linux-toshiba-satellite-x200x205/ for links to my notes on setting up other parts of the laptop.

By: SC

SC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:27:33 +0000

Found your blog series, here, on the X205 + Linux, it looks informative.

Would you happen to have any idea of how to get an X205 notebook to activate its bluetooth support under Linux?

GNOME isn’t recognizing any bluetooth adapater as being present, so I’m assuming that you have to do something to activate it, but I have no idea what that would be — will try turning on the switch for the wlan-iface, maybe the bluetooth stuff will show up on the next boot…

(I can’t get the IWL wlan support working under 2.6.24 –though it might work fine with the IPW stuff under 2.6.18 — and I have the firmware installed for the wlan card. I’m using Debian kernel sources, here, building from scratch. Bluetooth, with its obex stuff, could at least work for quick file-over-the-air transfers, but I can’t seem to get that working, either. Basically, I’ve been trying to get my Toshiba X205 to talk to my Nokia N810, under linux, had no luck as of yet, under kernel 2.6.24 — might just have to step back to 2.6.18. 2.6.26 is from the current Debian ‘sid’ branch anyway, and it might not be all properly supported with the libs in ‘etch’, I wonder…. wonder, wonder…..)