Linux on the Toshiba Satellite A200-237

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WARNING: Work in Progress!

I'm still working on exploring the possibilities of this notebook.

Touchpad

It is not possible to do mouse clicks by tapping on the Touchpad. This could be a Fedora 9 Xorg problem, since it works with GDM. I also works with Fedora 8 Xorg.

Update: This seems to be a Fedora 9 mis-feature and will be corrected in a newer release. A 'fixed' rpm for the Synaptics driver can be downloaded from ATrpms.

On Windows, the Touchpad has several functions that can be controlled by tapping at the appropriate places. Apparently, for this the Touchpad needs a special driver.

Battery

Power management shows the current charge in percents, but it cannot show the amount of battery time left.

This is also the case under Windows so it may not be related to Linux.

Graphics

No accellerated graphics with the standard Xorg driver.

Update: The proprietary ATI driver is still not ported to the newest Xorg. Bummer.

It is possible to downgrade Xorg so the proprietary ATI driver can be used. Directions for this can be found a.o. in the Fedora Forum.

Display

When the display blanks, the backlight stays on.

Suspend (to RAM)

Suspends, but does not resume correctly.

This seems to work with the Fedora Live CD.

VGA-Out

When an external monitor is connected and activated using xrandr --auto, the LCD bleaches and does not come back anymore. An X-server restart is necessary.

This works correctly with the Live CD.