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• Contact: Glen Duncan Scott
• Brand: Toshiba
• Make : Satellite Pro
• Model: A100

• Website: [http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/productPage.do?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=115309&DISC_MODEL=0&toshibaShop=true www.toshiba.com]

• S/N: Only needed if you have a Canonical supplied laptop

Current Issues

• Phoenix BIOS hardware not supported by [http://www.fnfx.sourceforge.net/ Fnfx] or [http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html Toshiba Linux Utilities]

• ACPI boot errors.
• Battery life operation significantly reduced (1 hr 16 mins) compared to Windows (2 hrs).

System Info

bios-version:1.90
system-manufacturer:TOSHIBA
system-product-name:Satellite Pro A100
system-version:PSAA3E-00Q013EN

Hardware details

Intel® Celeron® M processor 360         
15.4 Wide Screen 1280x800 Display       
Keyboard/TouchPad       
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200M         
256Mb DDR2 RAM (533 MHz)        
40 GB Hard Drive        
Wi-Fi® 802.11b/g integrated Wireless LAN (Atheros Communications Inc.)  
Ethernet LAN 10/100 Base-TX     
Read: 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM/ Write: 24x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 10x HS CD-RW, 24x US CD-RW     
Lithium-Ion Battery     
International V.90 modem 56 Kbps data (V.90) and 14.4 Kbps fax (V.34)

Notes

ATI Radeon® Xpress 200M

• [http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide Installation Guide]

• [http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html Driver]

Wi-Fi® 802.11b/g integrated Wireless LAN (Atheros Communications Inc.)

• Requires net5211.inf Windows driver file and don't forget to turn hardware switch on! Activation command

$sudo dhclient ath0

• [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation Installation Guide]

Xgl/Compiz (ATI) - Experimental - Works but missing window headers.

• [http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Xgl-Compiz-Dapper Installation Guide]

Synaptic Package Manager

System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager to install these additional programs.

Educational

• [http://www.bibletime.info/ bibletime] - KJV Bible and commentary

• [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ celestia] - Real-time visual space simulation

• [http://www.stellarium.org/ stellarium] - Real-time photo-realistic sky generator

Games

• [http://www.armagetronad.net armagetron] - 3D Tron-like high speed game

• chromium - Scrolling space shooter

• [http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ frozen-bubble] - Pop the bubbles

• ksokoban - Mental puzzles
• rrootage - Shooter game

• [http://www.wesnoth.org/ wesnoth] - Battle strategy game

Graphics

• [http://www.blender.org/ blender] - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

Internet

• [http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/ ddclient] - Update dynamic IP address at DynDNS.org. [http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_setup_a_LoJack_system_for_your_laptop Lojack]

• [http://www.ethereal.com/ ethereal] - Network analysis tool

• [http://www.fs-security.com/ firestarter] - Firewall

• [http://www.adobe.com/ flashplugin-nonfree] - Macromedia Flash plugin

• [http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/ gaim-encryption] - Encryption plugin for Gaim

• [http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/ gmail-notify] - Email alert

• [http://earth.google.com/ googleearth] - Satellite earth imagery application

• [http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ mozilla-thunderbird] - Email client

• [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail] - GPG support for Mozilla Thunderbird

• [http://www.java.com/ sun-java5-jre] - Runtime environment

• [http://www.java.com/ sun-java5-plugin] - Firefox plugin

• [http://www.xchat.org/xchat xchat] - IRC

Office

• [http://www.adobe.com/ acroread] - Acrobat reader and Firefox plugin

Programming

• [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs] - Editing tool

Sound and Video

• [http://amarok.kde.org/ amarok] - Media Player

• [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ audacity] - Multimedia Editing

• [http://www.getdemocracy.com/ democracyplayer] - Internet TV Player

• [http://www.k3b.org/ k3b], [http://lame.sourceforge.net/ lame], libk3b2-mp3 - Rip an Audio CD into MP3, ISO, CD/DVD burning software

• [http://www.kinodv.org/ kino] - Multimedia Editing

• libdvdcss2 - DVD Decryption
• libxine-extracodecs - Multimedia Codecs i.e. Quicktime

• [http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ totem-xine] - Media Player and Firefox plugin

• [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ vlc] - Media Player for unusual formats

• w32codecs - Multimedia audio and video codecs

System Tools

• [http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ alien] - Install non-native packages with dpkg

• build-essential - Enables building of Debian packages

• [http://www.marzocca.net/linux/bum.html bum] - Boot-Up Manager for easy configuration of startup and shutdown scripts and services

• [http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ msttcorefonts] - Microsoft fonts

• [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ ndiswrapper] - Installs Windows drivers for network cards.

• [http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ smartmontools] - Control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.

• xorg-driver-fglrx - Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140920 System Cleanup Guide]

Firefox Extensions

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/ Adblock Plus]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/ Adblock Filterset.G.Updater]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/134/ Copy Plain Text]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/743/ CustomizeGoogle]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532/ Del.icio.us]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/ Fire FTP]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/ Gmail Space]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ NoScript]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/135/ Secure Password Generator]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/436/ Session Saver]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/125/ Switch Proxy] - [http://www.digitalcybersoft.com/ProxyList/firefox-anonymous-browsing.shtml Installation Guide]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/ Tab Mix Plus]

• [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/ Web Developer]

Links

• [http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper Unofficial Starter Guide]

• [http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/ Wordpress]

• [http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Main_Page Ubuntu Document Storage Facility]

• [http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/ Monkeyblog]

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/i386/ Launchpad]

• [http://linuxbasics.org/ Linux Basics]

• [http://www.tuxmobil.org/ TuxMobile]

• [http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Linux on Laptops]

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