Toshiba laptops

[Scott Lambert]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:45:10PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert wrote:
> 
> >    If you just want a simple subset of toshutils function such as setting
> > CPU speed,
> > LCD brightness and FAN speed. I write a small utility for my Satelite Pro
> > 6100 , the program page is
> > http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/toshctl/index.html
> 
> Hi -- this is great! This should be a port! To build on -current with gcc
> 3.2, I had to change the throw(runtime_error) calls to
> throw(std::runtime_error) and add an include for <ctype.h> to
> tosh_bios.cpp.
> 
> It works fine on my satellite pro 6000.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on my Satellite 2805-S201, under
5.0 anyway.  Bummer.  I still vote for turning it into a port.

If I reboot, I will load up the 4.8 side and see if it works there.
Somehow, I think it will not.  Probably just hardware differences.

The old fan.c used to work back in the earlier 4.x series.  I do not
remember when it stopped working.  I would like to have the ability
to force the fan to run all the time.  But it is not a big deal, my
right leg is accustomed to cooking under this laptop after more than two
years.

But this Satellite is acting like it wants to die soon anyway.  That
will, finally, give me an excuse to get a titanium powerbook. :-)

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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