krisealv

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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 ++