I am going to try to install Debian and I only half-way know what I am doing. I've partitioned the hard disc and I have the kernel installed and ready to reboot. Does anyone have any suggestions or warnings for me? (Incidentally, this is a practise run on an old 10G HD I swapped with the one it came with).

It was on sale, and Greenville had sold out and I bought it in Jacksonville before I found out that Toshiba didn't have the specs on the S9092 on the web-site. "Fools rush in..." I was going to buy a laptop pre-configured with Debian but that company went out of business about the month I was ready to buy one. Someone said it was easy to put Linux on Toshiba...

I'm using Debian 3.0 r2 (Woody)

So far

boot: bf24 [use the 2.4 kernel]

additional modules loaded:
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco [I tried this and it loaded the next as well]

kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hermes

kernel/drivers/sound/ac97 [For a Realtek ALC250 audio controller]

kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon

kernel/drives/video/aty128fb [It wouldn't load the Radeon fb but would load the Rage Pro]

I was surprised that
kernel/drivers/char/tosh-utils
failed to load.

It has a 17-inch screen, 1440x990 native resolution or 1680x1050 TruBrite.
Anybody know what I should do when it comes time to configure it?

My first linux install was using the Debian Network install
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst.

this was dead easy..just burn the iso from windows and reboot.

If you have a decent internet connection I can recommend this technique. And it will give you the most current files.

Afterwards, if you have installed a desktop environment, you'll may need to edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to fix screen resolutions.

Did anything ever come of the S9092 install? Purchased this laptop and been looking for advice on install. Was thinking I would attempt to put debian on it.

Seems the orinoco/hermes wouldn't work for the wireless card as it features an Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG card.

ac97 looks correct for the sound.

It definatly has a Radeon based video card, but I'm showing a ATI Mobility RADEON X600SE. I don't think ati128fb will be working with this too well.

The 17" screen is WXGA though, which should be 1440x900 resolution.

Just chipping my 2 cents in. Thought I'd see how successful the install was. I'm going to attempt this install in a few days (should have some time over the weekend).

-orkim

My Father took ill, I have been nursing him. I postponed getting it to work.

I had been looking at ATI's website, they have some things to download for Linux.

Did you ever resolve this? I'm having serious trouble with my M65. I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu and PClinuxOS without any luck

Xfree86 4.0 did not give me a picture with the radeon driver but did with the vesa driver.

It did not stay on, I think there was another problem.

Tried SUSE yesterday with no luck either. The screen only works with vesa at 1024x768 and it looks very ugly since this screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio.

I think that our problem is with Linux and the screen recognition with all drivers except vesa.

I got mine working perfectly with PCLinuxOS. Check the link in my signature. It explains step by step how to install fglrx correctly.

http://eavr.u-strasbg.fr/~loic/toshiba_install.html describes slackware 10.2 install on similar lappy. Look thru linux on laptop for more.

Did hibernate and the other power management features work correctly?

I have not checked those features since I never hibernate and I use my laptop plugged in 90% of the time. It's probably possible though, PCLOS is quite easy to use.

http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/2005/11/26 has sarge netinstall iso image with 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 kernel that may handle ACPI better for your lappy as well as xorg to use that video chip. Getting right kernel config,right xorg version and video driver are the challenges for you. Debian sid has 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 kernels too.