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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) - 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. Note it's a good idea to perform a reboot after each section.

Accessories

• bibletime - KJV Bible and commentary

Educational

• stellarium - Real-time photo-realistic sky generator
• celestia - Real-time visual space simulation

Games

• armagetron - 3D Tron-like high speed game
• frozen-bubble - Pop the bubbles
• ksokoban - Mental puzzles
• wesnoth - Battle strategy game

Graphics

• blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

Internet

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

• ethereal - Network analysis tool
• firestarter - Firewall
• flashplugin-nonfree - Macromedia Flash plugin
• gaim-encryption - Encryption plugin for Gaim
• gmail-notify - Email alert
• googleearth - Satellite earth imagery application
• lynx - Command line web browser
• mozilla-thunderbird - Email client
• mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail - GPG support for Mozilla Thunderbird
• sun-java5-jre - Runtime environment
• sun-java5-plugin - Firefox plugin

Office

• acroread - Acrobat reader and Firefox plugin

Programming

• emacs - Editing tool

Sound and Video

• amarok - Media Player
• audacity - Multimedia Editing
• k3b, lame, libk3b2-mp3 - Rip an Audio CD into MP3, ISO, CD/DVD burning software
• kino - Multimedia Editing
• libdvdcss2 - DVD Decryption
• libxine-extracodecs - Multimedia Codecs i.e. Quicktime
• totem-xine - Media Player and Firefox plugin
• vlc - Media Player for unusual formats
• w32codecs - Multimedia audio and video codecs

System Tools

• alien - Install non-native packages with dpkg
• build-essentials - Enables building of Debian packages
• bum - Boot-Up Manager for easy configuration of startup and shutdown scripts and services
• msttcorefonts - Microsoft fonts
• ndiswrapper - Installs Windows drivers for network cards.
• 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://www.tuxmobil.org/ TuxMobile]

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

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