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* Contact: [MGlenBowden]

• Make: Toshiba
• Brand: Satellite
• Model: 4070CDS (Canadian)

• Website: Toshiba Canada Link

This is my first post on the Ubuntu WIKI page. Wondering how long until you get a visual editor. I had trouble getting the Labtoptestingteam template so I just copied someone elses.

Current Issues

Hardware details

||<-4> Power Management Essentially this is a problem area as I recieve the ACPI older than 2000 error, when I use the shutdown command it kills everything put LCD is still on with splash screen. I did a quick search on how to force the acpi and cam up with a simple solution of adding the command <acpi=force> to the kernel line, check this page for more details https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/6522 Actualy the key solution for me was this. Cesare Tirabassi said on 2007-05-15:

1) To add acpi=off edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add acpi=force to your kernel line. For instance:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=51270779-0fb3-447d-b429-01710687e545 ro acpi=force quiet splash.

I still get the must force ACPI but shutdown now works.||

Notes

I picked up a few of these laptops from a revenue canada auction. They did not seem to run well in windows so I thought I would try Linux. Before i tried Dapper I tried some other version of Linux, had trouble with the monitor they have a Trident viseo card. The screen came up 640x480 and had a bunch of wriggly lines obscuring the view of the bottom of the screen. I looked on the net tried a variety of changes to the systems still could not get them to work well. They were slow. the screen was lousy, but the sound was OK.

So this week I recieve an ubuntu and edubuntu disk from canonical. And I decide to install them one on each of two systems.

If I can get them to work great if not, Oh well.

So system one I installed Ubuntu from the Live CD with no internet connection hooked up. There were no problem with the install. But I still have wriggly lines on bottom of screen.

The Sound is great, autoCd detection worked w/ sound Juicer popping rt up. If I cannot get the displays right I'll have to covert them into 4.3 GB oversized MP# players.

Well I will come back and let you know how the other system is fairing. It is still running. It has a few more challenges as I inserted a PcmiA Network adaptor in it (A lInksys not overly known for its usability) _ System 2 installed with similar results.

I upgraded the bios on both systems to 8.2 the newest version available for these systems, however I syill recieved one error message on booting them regarding ACPI being to old. And they do not shut down properly.

I still have the following to do, (in this order) get rid of muck on bottom of screen try to get better than 800 x 600 resolution find a means to fix ACPI problem re: shut down, Get my D-Link USB wireless adaptor to work.

If you know any solutions please feel free to email me them or post a solution (link) to this page. Thanks.

Problem One the garbled screen and resolution issue.

Tried to fix this before by editing some file: the result was I completely lost my screen, would not work at all. After more research and fiddling around the following solution worked From terminal run sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Once in editor locate the following line under trident driver

BusID PCI :0:4:0

then add these 2 lines directly below it.

VideoRam 2048

Option "noaccel"

go down a few lines and locate monitor delete lines for HorizSync and VertRefresh

Finally change Depth from 24 to 16

This corrects the garbeled screen on reboot. I still only havee 800x600 but I'll fix that a different weekend. I tested this on 3 Satellite 4070s, the screens have never looked better. I am pleased.