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Unable to enable acpi functions on Toshiba A300-1G5 in Ubuntu 8.10

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I own Toshiba A300-1G5 laptop. After I had installed Ubuntu Interpid I'd realised toshiba acpi functions hadn't been working at all.
Neither bluetooth (that is hidden usb device powered on only by acpi in toshset) nor brightness control nor suspend/hibernate modes are working. Ubuntu hadn't also deteced toshiba's Agere soft modem. ATI 3470 driver (xorg-driver-fglrx) also had refused to be installed.

Please, advice how to enable acpi support for my laptop. I don't know what to do. Everything works well on my friend's laptop. I think that's because his one is older and Ubuntu successfully detects it's hardware.

What should I do? Answer, please.

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_sRg_ (sor-sergey) said : 		#1

I've succeded in installing xorg-fglrx driver. Now I have compiz effects and desktop cube.
I've noticed that when I watch video in Totem, it flickers. If I switch video output to NoXv in gstreamer-properties video doesn't flicker but retards while displaying dynamic scenes. It is very slow.

Another problem! No after fglrx installation suspend to mem start function. When I close lid, it goes to suspend mode successfully. But I have noticed that when I open lid again, power manager activates. Now it reacts and I can increase and decrease brightness using Fn-F6 and Fn-F7 keys. Also, when I unplug power supply it show balloon tip that laptop switched to battery mode. Before I use suspend ones nothing works. I mean when I boot and login power manager functions doesn't work, then after I go to suspend and resume after it, everything works. What a strange bug.

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_sRg_ (sor-sergey) said : 		#2

Continue talking to myself.

I have made all my best to enable bluetooth and brightness control support. After all i have installed omnibook module and loaded it with ectype=14 parameter. Then I have invoked command echo 1 > /proc/omnibook/bluetooth. Gnome bluetooth applet had immediately indicated that bluetooth appeared in Ubuntu. Then I tried to press Fn-F6 and Fn-F7 hotkeys. And surprisingly it worked. Now when I unplug power cable from laptop, gnome-power-manager applet correctly indicates that AC adapter power disappered and switched to battery mode was made. It also displays baloon tip as it should.

But new trouble again. When I increase brightness manually using Fn-F6/F7 it works. But when I make laptop working from battery mode I see temporary shown window that indicates brightness should be about half of normal (as I see on this window's progress bar). But brightness doesn't change. Now I have fglrx and omnibook modules installed.

That's a new question. How to fix that?

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LowPOwerPC (alexpey85) said : 		#3

i have the same problem..
just installed jaunty alpha on a old Toshiba Portege 4010; works pretty well exept rebooting the machine that doesn't works at all, and the Fn+*
i tried to install toshiba-* and toshutils packages but the problem is still unsolved...

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