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Toshiba Portege m200
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1 3674 02-03-2005
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100% of reviewers $1,400.00 9.0
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Description: Centrino banias/dothan
ddr ram 256-2048mb
wacom tablet screen
12 inch sxga+
ca 2 kg
no optical drive
convertible tablet
Keywords: ultra portable notebook tablet centrino 12 inch
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCIController (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
0000:02:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB) EthernetController (rev 83)
0000:02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)
0000:02:0d.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller(rev 05)


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Old 02-03-2005, 05:46 PM   #1
krisealv
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: SuSE
Posts: 111
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $1,400.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-24.11-default
Distribution: Suse 9.2



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The distro is ideal for laptops, this laptop works pretty well with it. It
s a refirbished pc.

My setup in the time of writing is:

pentium m banias 1.5
768mb ram
Geforce fx 5200 32mb
80 gb samsung drive
ipw2200bg wireless


"Everything" works except:

*No sd-reader driver, only works as floppy emulator in bios at boot
*irda fix does not compile on suse
*30 second initialization at boot brings boot time over a minute
*dothan cpu (1.7ghz) did not have speedstep support on this pc

acpi:
*no suspend 2 ram under nvidia drivers (works with xorg drivers)
*no suspend to disk (software suspend to disk works)
*lcd backlight (dpms) does not turn off

buttons on screen do not work as arrows in suse, they appear to be win-key+1-6 and ctrl+alt+del, ddfault wacom driver is not recomended, I use a different one that ads right-button functionality (forgot link, sorry)

Also, the pc seems to be somewhat slow responsive at its current state, installed suse via a different centrino pc due to the lack of optical drive

linux lacks some tablet functions like handwriting recognition (xstroke http://www.xstroke.org/ might work, but i ended up in either no compile or dependecy hell)

Almost impossible to boot from a usb cd/dvd-rom, not even toshiba's own works;P


Links:

http://www.adebenham.com/laptop/toshiba_m200.html Great link with almost everything you need, also home of gournal (not tested)

http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/download.htm Somewhere on this page I actually found useful things, can't find them now though:(

All in all a great laptop with great battery life, nvidia graphics, decent linux support ++
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