Linux on a TOSHIBA 2410-404

by Marco Kraus ( linuxlaptop@linuxstuff.de )

First of all: I like these Toshiba notebook. They are of a good quality and are quite linux compatible. And this all for are really cheap price.

What works: APM, X, Sound, USB, Firewire, networkcard
What doesn't work: Softmodem (maybe with linmodem), Speedstep (mybe with kernel 6.1 and ACPI)

BIOS:

To get into the BIOS you have to hold ESC while switching on the notebook. Good news, your BIOS is compatible with Linux APM, so Suspend-to-RAM will work correctly.

Soundkarte:

You can use OSS (obsolete with Kernel 2.6.x) and modprobe i810 OSS module. Or you use the ALSA drivers (better idea, because the OSS drivers are quite buggy).
Just use the Alsa module and modprobe snd-intel8x0

Keyboard:

Like most other keyboards, this Toshiba has also Problems with the keybounce.
You can fix this with setting xkbset with the bouncekeys options:

xkbset bouncekeys 20 xkbset exp =bouncekeys

X-Server

The touchpad can be used as an imps/2 wheelmouse. So the wheel and double-click works correctly.
I installed the nvidia binary drivers (see nvidia website; use the newer ones. the older drivers had problems with APM).

You can get my XF86Config here

Console FB:

With kernel 2.4.x I could set VGA=794 (or whatever you want) and the console framebuffer worked fine.
I had problem to get this work with kernel 2.6.x. Maybe these FB drivers are broken ?

Network

It's an Intel eepro100. Just modprobe eepro100. No problems with this.

USB and Firewire:

I use raw1394 module for my Sony DCR-PC 330 DV camcorder. Works fine. Mybe you should have a look at my kernel configuration here.

USb also work without any problem. See also my kernel configuration. usbstick, mass-storage, mp3player, usbmouse...i run everything without any problem.

Modem:

Bad news. Seems to be a Toshiba softmodem. Mybe newer versions of linmodem can help there, but I just bought me a 3Com modem-card ;-)