Installing Ubuntu on Toshiba Satellite M70-166

Last updated: 21/05/2007

Toshiba Satellite M70-166

General Hardware Specifications of Toshiba Satellite M70-166:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Centrino 740 - 1.73 GhZ	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
15.4 WXGA+ TFT Display	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
ATI Mobility X600	Works	No special procedure required during installation
1024MB, SDRAM, 2DIMMs	Works	No special procedure required during installation
100 GB SATA Hard Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intregrated Card Reader	Yet to test	SD ok, MMC & MS not ok (see below)
Integrated Network Card	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal 56k Modem	Works	Using SMARTLINK drivers
24X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intel BG2200 Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi Certified)	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Lithium-Ion Battery	Works	No special procedure required during installation
AC'97 Audio Controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.20-15-generic

Basic Installation of Ubuntu:
Under Construction

Setting up additional features for Ubuntu
Under Construction

INTEGRATED CARD READER (SD/MMC/MS)

I had to perform following commands to correctly use SD cards on integrated card reader:

BUSID=`lspci | sed -e '/Texas Instruments.*FlashMedia/!D; s/ .*//;'`
setpci -s ${BUSID} 4c.b=0x02

You can put these lines in your /etc/rc.local file (so it'll be executed at boot time)

Unresolved issues

Gnome-power-manager doesn't correctly shut down system automatically when battery is at critical low level.
To solve that, you might want to set /apps/gnome-power-manager/use_time_for_policy to false using gconf-editor
Can't use Desktop Effects ... whatever...just waiting for next ATI drivers.

Configuration Files
Under Construction

More Specific Information.

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 [Radeon Mobility X600]
06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:04.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
anything else you feel is relevant or may be useful

Contact Information (Optional)

You can contact me by e-mail: madmoose (at) hotmail (dot) com

Links:

MoosesooM (my little ubuntu blog)
Link to the laptop manufacturer (If applicable)
Linux on Laptops