なんでもない | nandemonai

I recently bought myself a Toshiba NB200 netbook and of course the first thing I did was wipe Windows XP and installed Linux.

Toshiba NB200 running Mint 7

I opted for Linux Mint 7 for consistency reasons and came upon some handy tips via the Ubuntu forums for this particular machine.

To summarise:

*** If you’re planning to install Linux on this netbook then ensure wifi and bluetooth is enabled via Windows BEFORE you wipe it and install Linux ***

Wifi

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

Sound (headphone, not speaker)

Add this repo:

https://launchpad.net/~rlinfati/+archive/ppa

Update..

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Add this line to the bottom of the /etc/modeprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel model=asus-mode4

Reboot and you should be good to go.

Video Issues

Add the following PPA

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

Update and restart X.

Touchpad

Download the attached touchpad.fdi file.

sudo cp touchpad.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

Reboot, then..

apt-get install gsynaptics

Bluetooth

1. Get sources from http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/362618/om…1217-1_all.deb
2. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled in Windows
3. sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential
4. sudo m-a a-i omnibook-source
5. Try it: sudo modprobe omnibook ectype=14
6. Make it autoload:

* sudo nano /etc/modules
* Put “omnibook” at the latest line
* sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/omnibook.conf

options omnibook ectype=14 userset=0 lcd=0 display=0 blank=0 battery=0 ac=0 bluetooth=1

Hibernate

Install uswsup:

sudo apt-get install uswsusp

Backup the /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux file:

sudo cp /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux.bak

Replace the original file above with this:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/s2disk

Now find out where your swap partition is with fdisk -l or by looking at /etc/fstab then add the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst (in my case swap is on sda1)

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash resume=/dev/sda1

Finally:

sudo update-grub

Viola.

I love this lil netbook

Source and full instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1215665