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#2 Toshiba Equium A110
System vendor: "TOSHIBA"
Product name: "EQUIUM A110"
Looks like it might be somewhat different - not sure,
though...
Discovered so far:
0x9E bit 3 set: touchpad disabled
0xB9, bits 0 to 2: display brightness (range 0 to 7)
0xA3, bit 0: appears to be backlight disable bit
0xB0: temperature?
Saying ectype=11 allows the extra buttons to work.
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Hi,
Thanks for those precious informations.
Do you still have a windows partition ?
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The Windows install got removed very quickly. It did get
started up once, but I rejected the EULA... what information
were you hoping to gain from Windows, and how?
BTW, the backlight on/off code works fine.
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Most ectypes implementations (In fact all but 12, and also
13 in the next release) have no probing mechanism. As they
just read/write some EC address or send some command to the
keyboard controller this is unfixable.
What was done in the past was to try all possible ectypes
and exclude those which gave unrealistic result for lcd or
temperature for example.
The question I wanted an answer was "Does you laptop belong
to a previously known ectype or does it require the creation
of a new one ?"
Just looking what files the Toshiba utilities installed in
windows is a way to obtain an answer.
What I just did is to download the "Common Module" driver
from Toshiba and see that the nbsmi.sys driver is the same
as the one of the Toshiba A105.
So your ectype should be 14 and there should be no point
creating a new one.
Unfortunately the display brightness address does not match.
Please note that ectype 14 gives pretty minimalistic
suppport and in fact quite broken now.
To clarify the situation:
what features does NOT work with ectype 1 ?
As the Toshiba utilities seems to use the same driver as the
one of the A105, I should ask Toshiba for the technical
documentation. If their answer is positive, I should be able
to implement a decent backend for ectype 14 (A105) which
hopefully will work for you too.
But first I have a release to make, so please be patient.
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With ectype=1:
'blank', 'hotkeys', 'lcd' all fully working.
'display' doesn't seem to pick up my plugging in an external
display.
'fan' doesn't work at all; writing to it trips the BIOS into
thinking that the battery is low (even with AC connected).
Not sure about fan policy: it reports 0, 1, 124, 0, 0, 0,
10, 87, 25, 95.
Temperature reading seems fine.
Writing to 'touchpad' seems to do nothing.
AC & battery seem to be adequately handled via ACPI; ipw3945
notices the wireless kill switch.
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Ok thanks, I would recommend you boot with ectype=1 until
appropriate backend is made.
Just ignore fan, fan_policy and display.
Can you give me please the output of /proc/omnibook/dmi so I
can enable autodetection ?
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BIOS Vendor: TOSHIBA
BIOS Version: V1.30
BIOS Release: 07/20/2006
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name: EQUIUM A110
Version: PSAB2E-002006AV
Serial Number: [deleted]
Board Vendor: TOSHIBA
Board Name: Null
Note that I've upgraded the BIOS (from 1.20).
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Thanks, will be added in trunk
I'll keep this open until at least I know Toshiba response
concerning technical data