Has anyone here had luck installing linux onto a Toshiba 5105-S702?

Try running knoppix on it first. I didn't find your model at
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html
and the closest one,
Toshiba Satellite 5205-S703
is a dead link. You can see there, in general, how easy/hard it is to get Linux on Toshiba.

RO

i did. results are that USB mouse works, the screen resolution doesnt fill up the whole monitor, sound device isnt detected, and the finger pad thing doesnt work.

I have a Toshiba 5205-s705 with Suse 9.1 installed and I have everything working with minimal effort except my firewire card and sd reader.

Lee

ill probably contact u later then for help if i need. are these models very similar to each other?

I have the 5105-S701 and I installed RH 9 with little difficulty.

Few issues off the top of my head that I ran into.

- NVIDIA Drivers (from Nvidia site)

- XF86Config (I can post my file if you want to see it)

- The CPAD has drivers and there is a website for it, but I have not been able to get it working on my machine yet. But then, I haven't tried very hard either.

- SD Card, rumor has it that there is a way to get it working but I haven't done that either.

Somethings I have not messed with yet...

Firewire, Smartcard, front panel LCD and push buttons.

Ziv

can you show me the site for the cpad drivers?

http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/index.shtml

That is all i have seen.

Ziv

Hey could you give me any indication of what pitfalls, if any, you ran into installing your version of Suse? I have the same computer. I have been doing some research in google but your link to this thread is the only thing I could come across to match. You can email me at budweisersucks@hotmail.com so we can chat about the Suse Installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony

I am running SuSe 9.3 now. The only problems I have has was that my firewire card causes issues with my soundcard because they are on the same irq. And as far as I know there is no drivers for Toshiba's sd card reader. Other than that everything is fine.

Lee