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Topic: Toshiba Libretto 100CT, Graphics and sound - any experience?

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andrzejs

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Posted: April 14 2005,12:04

Yesterday I installed DSL on Toshiba Libretto 100CT. 166Mhz Pentium MMX , 64MB RAM, no floppy, no CD. Booting from 80MB flashdisk, nice, (damn)small and quiet.

Now I am trying to find out how to reconfigure X server (Xbfdev works fine starting with 1024x768, Xvsvga does not). Libretto's screen is non-vesa 800x480. How do I change default screen resolution for the Xbfdev?

The sound wouldn't work either. Has anybody any experience of such hardware?

I can't boot the libretto from Live-CD so I have to configure and install the booting flashdisk on anaother laptop, with different hardware which doesn't exactly make the whole procedure easier.

Grateful for any suggestion...

/AnSz

libretto

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Posted: April 14 2005,12:37

I used to have a Libretto 70CT running DSL, that took a little fiddling to get ot work as well. Well done on the flashdisk, next time my laptop hdd dies I'll do that. As its been a while I cant remember exactly how I sorted out my laptop. If you search these forums, there should be some of my posts somewhere. Also I found doing a google search for 'libretto linux' turned up some good resources on hardware issues.

HTH! Libretto

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Andreas

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Posted: July 06 2006,07:08

Got DSL 2.1 working on my Libretto 100.
All is o.k. but no sound!

Tried sndconfig, installed ALSA but nothing worked for me.
Maybe some Librett user with a working sound configuration can post this here...

Andreas

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Vaio C1VN, Libretto 100CT, Portege 3020CT (all of them with DSL 3.x), Eee PC with Xandros Linux, a lot of Handheld PCs and other Mac and PC stuff!

dougz

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Posted: July 06 2006,11:27

Like user libretto, I'm a big fan of using search engines. Using google with search arguments "libretto linux sound" yields an enormous amount of helpful info.

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I can't hear you...
Being someone that wants my computer to make interesting beeps at me I wanted the sound to work on the Libretto. I haven't had much luck using the "standard" sound drivers in linux but I did find a "commercial" version of the drivers from 4Front Technologies. Folks at 4Front actually did much of the work on the orginal sound drivers and in fact there is a "freeware" version of the software with less support for different cards. Unfortunatly the freeware doesn't support the Libretto, or at least I couldn't get it to work. I didn't work too hard and just gave the folks at 4front $20 bucks and got my sound working.

I ended up installing the "Generic Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) non-PnP" driver that came with OSS. I did have to modify the "devices.cfg" in the oss directory to match the IRQ and DMA settings for the Libretto. The following is my "devices.cfg" file...

/SECUREAUDIO OFF
/IRQEXCLUDE 3 4
/DMAEXCLUDE 2
-opl3sax #Generic Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) non-PnP
OPL3SAX ON P530 I5 D0 d1
OPL3SAMPU ON P330 I9
OPL3 ON P388

On FreeBSD I found that the line above that describes the DMA channels would not work as shown. It would lock the computer in a horrible death. Everything was groove once I changed the line to swap the main and secondary DMA channels to:

OPL3SAX ON P530 I5 D1 d0

One other note about the sound hardware on the Libretto. Everywhere else in the world has standardized on a 3.5mm (1/8") stereo jack for smaller than 1/4" headphone connections. For some unknown reason Toshiba figured it needed to shave 1/32 of an inch more off so they installed 2.5mm (3/32") jacks in this machine. Don't bother trying to find stereo 2.5mm to 3.5mm or 1/4" adapters at Radio Shack. You need to build them. You can find the parts at Mouser. Pick up a nice metal shielded plug and a jack and wire up your own adapter. Cited article

How did we ever live without the Internet and search engines? :;):

Andreas

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Posted: July 06 2006,12:11

The first thing I´ve did was searching the web...
There are many nice tips which I tried that didn´t work

But maybe you could tell me where there OSS directory is.
I can´t find it in my DSL installation

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