DSL on Toshiba Satellite S310CDS
Forum: Laptops
Topic: DSL on Toshiba Satellite S310CDS
started by: TheCybermaster
Posted by TheCybermaster on June 16 2005,17:32
Hi,I have this old Toshiba Satellite: S310CDS, and I want to use it with DSL. But when I insert the disc I get the boot menu and stuff, but when I press enter to let it boot it loads a few things, but when it comes to the processor it just says "processor 0 Intel Pentium MMX 199 MHz" and then it freezes....
It's as you can see an Intel Pentium MMX 199 MHz, and 64 or 32 MB RAM (not sure about that). It has a 2,1 GB Harddrive and some Xircom network card...
Can some one tell me how I get DSL running on the harddisk of this thing(as detailed as possible, I do have a lot of windows/msdos experience but none at all with linux or Unix, I only know how to boot DSL and play games with it
)Thanks for the help
Posted by Guest on June 17 2005,22:55
Try some of the available boot options to disable hardware autodetection. When you reach the boot prompt, press F2 and try one of those "no..." things. A good set of options to try for most old laptops can be typed this way:dsl vga=normal noagp nopcmcia noapm noapic nomce xsetup
At the final portion of the boot process, you will be presented with choices about your display, mouse, and keyboard. You may need to choose xfbdev, but there is nothing wrong with trying whatever just to get the best settings for your laptop.
Posted by TheCybermaster on June 18 2005,07:51
I'll try
Posted by TheCybermaster on June 18 2005,07:53
I tried your suggestion on the boot options and it now sommes all the way to X setup! Thanks for that! but after that it says| Code Sample |
| modprobe: modprobe: can't locate module fb0 xIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 know processed) with 0 events remaining. dsl@tty1[dsl]$ _ |
So how do I get te normal X desktop view?
/EDIT: after some messing with xsetup I got my desktop screen, thanks man!
Posted by andrewphoto on June 20 2005,11:16
I've got a 320CDT. TRy booting 'failsafe,' and if that don't work, scratch your head!
Posted by Guest on July 02 2005,12:53
| Quote (TheCybermaster @ June 18 2005,03:53) | ||
I tried your suggestion on the boot options and it now sommes all the way to X setup! Thanks for that! but after that it says
So how do I get te normal X desktop view? /EDIT: after some messing with xsetup I got my desktop screen, thanks man! |
I'm on a IBM 760EL and am getting the same fatal IO error, what did you do to fix this TheCybermaster??