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07-15-2006, 05:26 PM
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Toshiba Satellite A70 Sound and FC5
Hello all,
I have Fedora Core 5 installed on my Toshiba Satellite PSA70U-02J00F laptop. Everything is going great except for a few things.
For one, I cannot get the sound card to work. I am dual-booting, Windows shows it as a Realtek AC 97 codec but I cannot get the autodetection process in FC5 to get it to work.
Second, The touchpad is REALLY slow when I use it instead of my Logitech mouse. When I set the sensitivity for my Logitech mouse that suits me, it is insanely slow and not fast enough for the touchpad. Is there a way I can get both pointing devices to be set to the same sensitivity?
Finally, in FireFox, the my Logitech dual-optical has a sroll wheel and a thumb button. I can get the scroll button "click" to autoscroll, but when I let off of it, it will go back to the home page of the site I'm at. The thumb button will either do an autoscroll or go to the homepage of the site I'm on. I'd like to have the middle button to autoscroll only, and the thumb button to function as a back button.
I apologize if I am a
Thanks for any help!
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07-15-2006, 06:21 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Penguin land, with apple, no gates
Distribution: SlackWare > Debian testing woody(32) sarge etch lenny squeeze(+64) wheezy .. bullseye bookworm
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#1. sound: is correct module loaded?
#2. touchpad and mouse: I also have same problem, I have not found solution yet.
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07-15-2006, 07:10 PM
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I noticed that after I did a yum update, my sound worked. It is listed as an ATI IXP AC97 in Soundcard Detection.
As for the touchpad; it's kind of odd. When FC5 is going through it's bootup process such as applying the host name and starting other daemons, the touchpad moves decently fast (enough to suit me) and the Logitech mouse works well too.
I also have a problem with my Atheros AR5001X+ wireless NIC. FC5 doesn't even appear to detect it =(
Last edited by TC10284; 07-15-2006 at 07:18 PM.
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07-15-2006, 07:40 PM
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touchpad - install xorg synaptics input module or select imps2 protocol i think (first solution better, you get scrolling on right and bottom sides of touchpad if you're lucky)
wireless - install kernel sources (those for your current kernel), and then get the "madwifi" driver
detect hardware? "lspci" sure does with a recent kernel
use it? get the driver? ah... that's another problem :-)
Last edited by milanc; 07-15-2006 at 07:42 PM.
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07-15-2006, 09:22 PM
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I've been working with madwifi. I got the package downloaded and extracted. When I do a make, it gives an error saying it cannot find kernel source 2.6.17. I have tried to DL and install the kernel sources from a bunch of places but I cannot get it =\
I have not tried the touchpad stuff yet.
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07-17-2006, 09:18 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Penguin land, with apple, no gates
Distribution: SlackWare > Debian testing woody(32) sarge etch lenny squeeze(+64) wheezy .. bullseye bookworm
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Um,
1. wireless: what does your penguin say, "iwconfig" and "ifconfig"?
2. sound: what does your penguin's log (or dmesg) say, "alsaplayer"?
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07-17-2006, 12:37 PM
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I have fixed the sound issue.
I had a friend help me through the config process of the Wireless. I could get the system to connect when WEP was disabled on the AP, but when I reenable WEP on the AP and attempt to put in the WEP key at the terminal (I cannot remember the exact command at this time) the wireless NIC is never leased an IP address from my DHCP server.
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