Very interesting, Russell. Thanks for the update. I'm glad we're keeping you off the streets and out of trouble ;).
Regards - Peter > Since this weekend seems to be my hackers holiday at home, no fires, no > fude's and no FUBAR, I thought I update the progress on the Toshiba laptop > Peter offered up to the list. > > When last hacked I had XFCE running on Light DM with a small ram upgrade. > Still not enough to force the video aperture to 64mg but videos played > well > and the system did not appear to overheat. > > Then I got cocky. I had fixed the dsdt tables but still couldn' connect to > the apic timer. Everything seemed stable so I installed Chrome. The rest > happened so quickly I didn't even have time to say this does not look good > and presto, one cooked drive. > > I had acquired the other Toshiba I was helping my friend with when he got > tied of failing to get the battery to charge after installing Windows 7. > So > I had another drive to tinker with but there are two important differences > in the laptops. The one Peter gave me has single core and runs without the > battery being installed, the other one is quad core and will not start > without a battery being present. > > So what to do, experiment with the other drive or something else, I went > with something else. I removed the drive, removed the battery, removed the > wifi and booted. The unit fails to register the realtek Ethernet and loops > the message but the unit stays alive. > > So now I have a fairly quiet three port USB charger. Oh yea, I also have > the unit sitting on a USB cooling base with he access plates removed from > the base but this is for the next part. Sugar on a Stick. This is the base > OS for the one child one computer project. For some reason this OS > requires > the battery to be installed in it. I imagine that is because of the form > factor for the prototype laptops which appear to have a perminent built in > battery. > So the upshot is Sugar runs fine, no Ethernet as of yet but the unit > itself > is quite stable. Hours of use and I've left it on overnight. No freezups, > crashes or chokes the next day and no excessive heating. No temp gauge but > by hand it feels a lot cooler. > > So I will probably upgrade the ram at some point which will increase the > video aperature to 64mg and try a full fedora with LDXE or something > similar. > > So thanks to Peter, it's lodes of fun and keeps me out of trouble. Well > for > the most part anyway. > :-) Russell > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325 --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
