Laptops :: toshiba 430cdt

I have a 430cdt with 40mb ram. I actually use xvesa 800x600 16bit. It works well. I'm running frugal on it. I even had xfree running but it took too much ram to be effective.

Chris

Thanks for all the help.

Things are up and running now. Specifying mem took care of things. x didn't run too well initially because of the lack of memory, but after I HD installed dsl, x is working fine.

The only thing that's not working right now the cdrom is not mounting for some reason. Mount.app keeps saying device is not ready.

Right now I've got 64mb swap, the screen is set at 800x600 16 bit.

Oops, just got it working.

I'm typing this from a Toshiba Satellite 440 CDT, and it gave me no issues except getting the sound running (which was solved by adding a few parameters to a modprobe statement in bootlocal.sh).

These days, memory for these laptops can be found very inexpensively. I found a 64 meg stick for a whopping 25 dollars (US) on ebay. It made an enormous difference in the functionality of the laptop.

Most of the older toshibas had 16mb of ram on the system board, and a single expansion slot. I'd suggest finding some memory and making the most of it. It'll be the difference, in my experience, between something barely useable and a fully functional (albeit still a little slow) machine.

After all, my 25 bucks turned this hunk of free salvage into my "daily driver"

--dare2dreamer, who is hunting for some cf flash adapters on the cheap.

These old toshiba's are bricks but they are nice PC's. Mine still has a really bright screen. I'll have to take a peak on ebay and see if I can up the ram. Mine has 40mb in it now.

How many of these old 'brick' toshibas are floating around here? Tell us your story.

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