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# Toshiba Equium A200

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This document will cover experiences and configuration of Arch Linux running on Toshiba Equium A200.

## Specification

Intel Pentium Dual CPU (T2310) @ 1.46Ghz
2GB RAM
120GB HDD
Intel 965GM Chipset

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

lsusb output (Wireless card is there)

Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

## Graphics

Includes an Intel 965GM chipset, Which works well with the xf86-video-intel driver. TV-Out works.

## CompizFusion

Works without any apparent problems.

## Ethernet

Works.

## Wireless

Contains a nasty hardware hack: an internal USB WLAN interface. The chipset is rtl8187b, which seemingly is almost supported by the rtl8187 driver, but it does not associate correctly.

Running the wlan through ndiswrapper might or might not work.

If you need WLAN, this laptop is *not* recommended. Not only because Linux support is limited, but because the technical decision of having an internal USB device is very questionable.

Edit:

This wireless card, rtl8187b, has now got native support in kernel 2.6.27 and upwards. It works out-of-the-box! (rtl8187 driver)

No need for ndiswrapper but If you would like it for older kernels etc, look here: (might not work tho)

[1]

## Sound

Works.

## Battery

The machine has lousy battery performance, and it seems to drain battery even after being shut down. Some reports have indicated that this does not happen when the machine is shut down from Vista. Needs investigation.

Edit:

This has been fixed with a kernel update (2.6.24) not 100% which kernel fixed it.

## Summary

Overall, its a nice laptop to run Linux on. There are no problems with hardware.

All hardware works out of the box on Ubuntu 8.10, Arch Linux (once set up) and others.

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