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Fedora 13 (FC13) / Toshiba Laptop: Working headphone jack!

Chris Brown — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:07:08 +0000

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4477

I had previously posted about getting sound to work… the problem was that when you plugged headphones the laptop speakers would still be on and if you muted them the headphones muted… Today I dug around and found a simple solution that really works…

add the follwing line to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

Fedora 10 / Toshiba Laptop: Working headphone jack!

Chris Brown — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:33:11 +0000

The headphone jack on my laptop wasn’t working in fedora 10 so I did a little bit of reading today and found this solution:

add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout

by the way, the soundcard is an intel HDA

Installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Laptop (part 5) – Intel 3945abg wireless card working

Chris Brown — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:52:39 +0000

I was able to get my wireless card to work by installing the IntelÂ® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver for Linux

Everything is running smoothly now.

Installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Laptop (part 4) – Intel 82801G solution for working sound

Chris Brown — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:39:31 +0000

A little bit of reading and some testing lead me to the fix for my Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller:

modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3stack

All good. Restart and it works.

Installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Laptop (part 3) – wifi issues

Chris Brown — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:18:46 +0000

All is going well. I’m writing this from firefox on linux on my laptop. The install went great.

The setup is fine other than my wifi card not working out of the box. Its an Intel 3945ABG. I know exactly what needs to happen to make it work and I’m in the process of doing it now.

As with nearly every linux intall that I’ve done, my sound is not working…. yet… but I’m confident that I will get it working quickly. This is probably the most common desktop linux problem after intsall but not once have I ended up with truly unsupported hardware. I can always seem to get it to work.

I hooked up eth0 and ran yum update. Next I need to get the drivers for my wifi card.

I’ll post again in a little while.

Installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Laptop (part 1) – aka I miss linux so I’m Installing Fedora Today…

Chris Brown — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:31 +0000

Somehow over the last couple of years my linux usage has become a server only thing. Linux used to be my main desktop os unless I was doing graphics stuff, but over time I got used to windows with the litestep shell.

I love litestep… I’ve been slowly tweaking my minimal theme for years now… a systray and a command box/clock and that’s it! I leave a 2px area at the top of the screen that can always be clicked to access menus.

I’m installing Fedora because it’s easy but real. I grew up on Slackware but I’ve also used my wife’s Ubuntu a lot… Ubuntu is nice but it seems a little bit too user friendly for me. Fedora is a good in between.

Anyway… It’s time to insall linux on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A135-S4477). I miss the 1337 feeling of linux desktop.

At this point I’m doing drive cleanup. I have a 90GB HDB that I’m going to install on but it was half full. I’m almost done transferring files to my 300GB external drive. This is a bit of a hassle because my WAMP folder is on HDB and I’m going to have to reconfigure the ini files later. Oh well.

Once HDB is clean and I’ve burned my Fedora DVD I’m going to delete the partitions and start the install.

I’ll keep posting about the process.