Hello all, I have a cool little laptop that has a rather interesting issue and I recieved no help from Toshiba so I figured I would try here for help.
Hardware is Toshiba Satellite M305D- s4831
Ubuntu 10 Os
4 Gb Memory
The problem.
Ok here is the fun part. The laptop works awesome if plugged into a power source, or off of the battery.
My laptop: Toshiba Satellite A215-S5825
I have a Toshiba Satellite L645D running Ubuntu 12.10 and it seems like Ubuntu like some other distros (Nadia, Debian) won't recognize my battery and I don't know the reason for that, it won't show the level of charge and if I have my laptop plugged in with the AC adapter, I have tried this "Settings > Power - Show battery status in the menu bar" as Always but it won't show me the level of charge
With each release cycle the Linux kernel and the distributions implement new improvements in terms of laptop power management. Therefore even plain standard installations can show quite good results.
Additional possibilities to save battery power are easily found on the web with the search engine of your choice.
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Laptop Mode Tools is a laptop power saving package for Linux systems. It allows you to extend the battery life of your laptop, in several ways. It is the primary way to enable the Laptop Mode feature of the Linux kernel, which lets your hard drive spin down.
My Mom bought a laptop last year, it was a low end laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite C650 I think.
I notice that once the laptop has been idle for awhile, the wireless internet disables, and I have to restart it to get it working again.
The laptop is set up the same as the rest of the computers, and non of the others have any problem with it.
Hi there,
Offlate I installed F11 i586 on my laptop. F11 shares the hard disk with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The problem is that when running F11 (or even Ubuntu), my system shut off suddenly(not a normal OS shut down, but a sudden power off without any warning). This could have been a hardware trouble(heating) but it doesn't happen with Vista.
Machine specifications:
Which DM are you using? KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LXDE or something else? It's probably battery indicator problem. On my old laptop it was showing 0% for split second after 5-6 minutes and of course this triggered actions for critical battery level. Change your settings in your power management solution (powerdevil, etc.) to do nothing on low and critical levels.
Does anyone with a Toshiba Satellite know of a way to turn off the multi media control, touch pad illumination and brand LED's from Linux? In Windows the laptop can be configured to turn off when on battery power. There is an echo-drive feature that can manually turn them off either on battery or AC power. In Linux it seems there is one choice, on.
Anyone got any ideas?
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