Toshiba_Satellite_A200-23P
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Hardware
Hardware specs vary in the A200 Series, all A200-23P has the following
Intel® Core™2 Duo T7500 (2.20 GHz), FSB 800 MHz, 4 Mb L2 cache Intel® Wireless WiFi™ Link 4965AGN (supports 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N) Intel® PM965 Express Chipset 1024 RAM DDR2 (667 MHz) TSSTCorp Super Multi (Double Layer) drive Matrix: 15.4", native resolution 1280 x 800 Videocontroller: ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 PCI-E 16x 512Mb HDD capacity may differ. Mine has 160Gb SATA 1 1 x VGA 1 x RJ-11 1 x RJ-45 1 x S-Video) 1 x i.LINK® (IEEE 1394) 1 x microphone jack 1 x headphones jack 1 x Bridge Media 6-in-1 (card-reader supporting SD™ Card, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick Pro™, MultiMedia Card™, xD-Picture Card™, SD™ IO) 4 (2 on left, 2 on righ) x USB 2.0 1 x Chicony USB webcam 2 x RAM slots 1 x ExpressCard slot Connectivity Bluetooth™ Intel® Wireless WiFi™ Link 4965AGN (supports 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N) Softmodem 56k,V.90 Realtek 8101 Fast Ethernet NIC Sound: Realtek HDA
Kernel Config
Works with gentoo kernel 2.6.24-r6. As of 16 of July 2008 ATI's Proprietary drivers do not work with kernels >=2.6.25 because of absence of kernel symbol init_mm. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Hardware status
| Device | Works? | Note |
| CPU | Yes | dual core, cpufreq, integrated heat sensors (Needs kernel 2.6.22 with CONFIG_SENSORS_CORETEMP set) |
| ACPI | Yes | Buttons: power, brightness (requires a BIOS update to Windows XP compatible version). AC Connector: plug, unplug (needs acpid) |
| DVD-Recorder | Yes | read/write tested. |
| Touchpad | Yes | Requires some tweaking in xorg.conf to make vertical scrolling work. |
| USB | Yes | Tested with external card-reader, mouse, usb flashstick. |
| Wired ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless ethernet | Yes | See this guide |
| Bluetooth | Yes | Not tested yet. |
| X11 | Yes | xorg 7.2 + fglrx + aiglx + dri runs compiz at 1280x800. Yet, fullscreen video is blinking. |
| Sound | Yes | ALSA intel-hda driver. Built as module from kernel tree. Built in speakers, headphone conecteor, built in microphone and external work, yet the sound from built-in microphone is very quiet. Tested with skype and gizmo. |
| Firewire | Yes | not tested. |
| Internal SD card reader | Yes | |
| software suspend (suspend2-sources) | No | ATI's fglrx has problems in tuxonice. I'm looking into it currently. |
| Multimedia keys | Partial | Keypressing emit scancodes, yet they are not defined in keymaps. |
| Built-in webcam | Yes | Works with external driver linux-uvc. Tested with skype. |
| Internal modem | No | Not tested |
| External monitor | No | Not tested |
| Suspend to ram | No | Not tested |
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