Call us at 1-800-677-8278 We strive to provide the best price available on BatteriesPlus.com and in our stores. Store pricing may vary from the price advertised on BatteriesPlus.com. Fees may apply for recycling, environmental disposal, and/or labor/installation. Our Policies:,,,,,,. All registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Dynabook, Inc. And its subsidiaries were deconsolidated from Toshiba Group on October 1, 2018. They will continue to develop, manufacture, sell, support and service PCs and system solutions products for global markets. It is a cross-platform DVD ripper freeware available for Mac OS X, Windows (Including Windows 8) and Linux. However, it comes with a hard-to-use interface and many users are at a loss what to do. It supports batch encoding as well as one by one converting with good video quality. Copyright ©2019, Batteries Plus LLC. All rights reserved. ©2019 DURACELL, Bethel, CT 06801. Duracell is a registered trademark of Duracell U.S. Operations, Inc., used under license. All rights reserved. This document applies in particular to Arch Linux on a Toshiba Satellite L300-OG1. It also applies to the entire L300 series on any modern Linux distribution (which uses at least kernel 2.6.36), and dependent upon what BIOS your system has. If your laptop has a BIOS version older than v2.20 you probably will have fan control problems and the 'Fn' key and PC speaker probably will not work. See below for a method to upgrade your BIOS. Contact the author of this wiki with any problems or suggestions (lagagnon at gmail.com) (English or Spanish). Contents • • • • • • • Specification This laptop has a dual core Pentium T3400 CPU, 2GB RAM, 15.4' WXGA glossy LCD screen 1280x800, 250GB hard drive, DVD+ RW optical drive, PCMCIA, wireless, ethernet, modem, SD card slot, 3 USB ports, VGA out port, webcam, trackpad. Note: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux' in /etc/default/grub. Kernel boot parameters (/boot/grub/menu.lst): Heed the video changes and boot manager kernel parameters should include: kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/your_UUID_here acpi_osi='Linux' ro i915.modeset=1 resume=/dev/sda3 The important kernel parameters above are: acpi_osi='Linux' (fan will not function correctly without), resume=/dev/sda3 (this is the swap partition, without which hibernate will not work) and i915.modeset=1, necessary for KMS video on the Intel graphics chip. Suspend/Hibernate: The 'pm-suspend' and 'pm-hibernate' scripts from the pm-utils package work but ACPI fan control after any suspend or hibernate will only function properly with BIOS version 2.20 or higher. Function Keys: To get the 'Fn' key to work one may need to upgrade your BIOS (see below). ![]() With a working Fn key the Num Lock key will function. However, you will still have to bind the hardware function key combinations to specific Linux facilities depending on what desktop environment you use. For instance 'Fn+F4' is the 'hibernate' facility. You have to bind the hibernate script that you specifically use to that key combo. The same goes for screen brightness, suspend, etc. This is not done automatically in Linux. The old 'toshiba_acpi' and 'fnfx' modules do not work with the InsydeH2O BIOS, they only work with Toshiba-written BIOSes. For information on how to bind keycodes (e.g. E.G.: bind these following key combinations to their keycodes and then to the following scripts: • Fn+F1 - xscreensaver-command -lock • Fn+F2 - sleep 1 && xset dpms force off • Fn+F3 - sudo pm-suspend • Fn+F4 - sudo pm-hibernate • Fn+F6 - xbacklight -dec 80 • Fn+F7 - xbacklight -inc 80 • Fn+F9 - (see the 'Software Toggle' here): Audio: Should just work, but ensure by using 'alsamixer', that the 'Front' mixer is set to max, or near max. By default it may be set at zero. Read [: invalid section] to find out how to store alsamixer settings between reboots. Bluetooth: This laptop does not have in-built Bluetooth, but works just great with any bluetooth dongle via USB if you follow these instructions. Upgrading your BIOS It seems that most of the L300 and L305 series laptops come with the InsydeH2O BIOS version 1.50. This BIOS is faulty with Linux and results in a dead Fn key and an improperly controlled fan. It is vital to get the fan working properly especially if you wish to use suspend and/or hibernate. The dead Fn key problem however is not a show stopper. The upgraded BIOS will also mean the PC speaker will start working! Toshiba Canada has the latest BIOS version (v2.2 at January 2011) here: [ 2017-05-30]. Ensure you get the correct file for your specific model. This file is a Windows-only executable - it does not contain anything usable under DOS. Nor can this BIOS be flashed using the Linux 'flashrom' application.
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