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Ubuntu Linux on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600-0HKE7

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Installing Ubuntu Linux 6.10 Edgy Eft on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600-0HKE7

Last updated: 11 April 2007

General Hardware Specifications of Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600-0HKE7:

Hardware Components

Status under Linux

Notes
Pentium III Processor, 900Mhz Works No special procedure required during installation.
15” colour active matrix TFT display at
1024 x 768 resolution
Simultaneous display of up to 32-bit colour on internal display
External Display Support
Up to 1280 x 1024 true colour support
Composite TV out (RCA Port)		 Works No special procedure required during installation.
Trident CyberBlade XP mobile with 16MB Video SDRAM
3D Acceleration, AGP Integrated
NTSC/PAL TV encoder		 Works No special procedure required during installation
256MB, SDRAM, 2DIMMs Works No special procedure required during installation
30 GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive Works No special procedure required during installation
Modular Floppy Drive Works No special procedure required during installation
Integrated 10/100 Base-TX Intel Ethernet with Wake On
Lan support and remote bootandIntegrated Wireless LAN Antenna		 Works No special procedure required during installation
Modem: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC’97 Modem (rev 03) Works No special procedure required during installation
Internal 8X DVD-ROM (Region Protection Control v2) Works No special procedure required during installation
Integrated Wireless LAN Antenna (Wi-Fi Certified) Works!!! :D No special procedure required during installation
59 WHr Lithium-Ion Battery Works No special procedure required during installation
Yamaha YMF743 PCI sound processor Works No special procedure required if using Kernel 2.6.x.

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.7.11

Basic Installation of Ubuntu Linux 6.10:

  • Ubuntu Linux has a great community of support, it is updated regularly
  • You can get Ubuntu from www.ubuntu.com. They offer ISOs as downloads & also free CD’s (including shipping)
  • Installation was very easy and stress free, I used the Alternative Install CD which means it did not boot into the live CD feature. Install detected both LAN & WiFi, WiFi connected during installation and configured itself using DHCP
  • Everything seemed to work out of the box! Once I logged in it had detected about 200MB worth of updates through WiFi connection, downloaded and installed all updates perfectly

Setting up additional features for Ubuntu Linux 6.10

  • Mouse and Touchpad worked fine, attached USB mouse detected fine and switched automatically. Screen resolution was maxed to specs by default, not very much to do post install!

Unresolved issues

  • None!

Configuration Files

  • No editing of config files needed!

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

  • df -hl:
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda1 27G 2.3G 24G 9% /
    varrun 125M 80K 125M 1% /var/run
    varlock 125M 0 125M 0% /var/lock
    procbususb 10M 84K 10M 1% /proc/bus/usb
    udev 10M 84K 10M 1% /dev
    devshm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
  • lspci:
  • 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 11)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 03)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 03)
    00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
    00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
    00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 03)
    00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC’97 Audio (rev 03)
    00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC’97 Modem (rev 03)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP (rev 63)
    02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
    02:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
    02:0d.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 31)
    02:0d.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 31)
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3 Responses to “Ubuntu Linux on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600-0HKE7”

  1. KEVIN PAGE Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    I’M A STORM SPOTER AND I JUST ORDERD THE LINUX PRO FREESPIRE COMPLETE OS + UBUNTU SOFTWERE DO YOU THINK IT WILL ALLOW THE PROGRAM FROM THIS SITE TO WORK?

    http://www.grlevelx.com/grlevel3/

  2. Matt Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    The requirements for the program states it needs windows:

    * Pentium processor or equivalent
    * Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, or XP
    * 64 MB of RAM
    * 16 or 32 bit color display at 800 x 600 resolution
    * DirectX 9.0

    You could possibly use Wine (http://www.winehq.com/) to run it in Linux, but it would probably take a while to configure it correctly.

    Hope the info helps

  3. Adam Says:
    May 16th, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Just wondering if you have gotten the RCA video output to work, because I havn’t been able to get mine to. Just wondering if others are having any issues hookin’ this relic up to a TV. Thanks for the info by the way.

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