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FreeBSD-4.10 & XFree86-4.3.0 on 50CT & 70CT,
FreeBSD-3.0 on 100
A friend Gary
J. wants to buy a Libretto. The 70CT runs Microsoft
Windows 95, but not 98 or XP (said previous owner of my
Libretto), so if you're an MS user & not a FreeBSD enthusiast
why not sell it before it gets ever older unused ?
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Not all who want FreeBSD on their Libretto have enough
time, skill & enthusiasm to do it. If you want to pay a
Consultant to install &/or
customise your Libretto to your requirements, Contact me for a quotation. (Only
for BSD - I do not touch
Microsoft).
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My original Microsoft Windows 95 floppy set + Toshiba discs
that came with my Libretto 70CT are for sale.
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(Unix manuals end with a "See Also" section, but as you'r
probably in a search for a different Toshiba model than mine,
Here's references to others first.
(If Win95 is till bootable & hasn't been erased
already) it may be worth going into Toshiba HDSetup.exe to
set BIOS, parallel port to ECP (as I
did).
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I have installed 4.10 with both PLIP on parallel port (+
port extender) & ethernet ftp (on a pcmcia) as
alternate methods. To both a 50CT & a 70CT.
I haven't tried a cdrom (via pcmcia adapter) yet. As
back then I had not yet learnt why ethernet was sticky,
EDITING HERE ON DOWN
I installed a minimal version, Booted multi user, Ether
was still intermittent. Installing all packages at 20 to
50 K byte/sec over parallel
NOTE After one selects "All" one must deselect/ delete
the base essential binary distribution from the list to
install, else you wipe passwords, inetd.conf etc !
NOTE when you start ftping all the packages &
personal data in parallel jobs across the PLIP
connection, it really impacts performance of whichever
host is supporting the other end of the PLIP for many
hours, so select your PLIP gateway
with care.
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Ethernet was sticky:
(Install hung after ~ 10 Meg (at 1 Kbyte /sec !) .10
The ftp through ep0 ethernet chugged along at 1 K byte
/ sec ! & expired half way through load of /bin )
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Probably irq 5 that ep0 takes by default is also used by
(unseen by a FreeBSD-4.10 generic kernel dmesg) internal sound (or other)
electronics.
As the Toshiba floppy set includes a Yamaha sound
driver, this seems likely
I fixed this later, multi user by adding "-i 11" to
pccardd_flags in /etc/rc.conf (remember not to also add
the -z that comes from /etc/defaults/rc.conf ), ( Ruben de Groot
confirmed 2004.11.05 this fix works for his Libretto
too.)
I then decided it was better to fix it in /etc/pccard.conf (to automatically
inherit whatever other -z type defaults might come in
future versions of FreeBSD).
Now knowing it's necessary to avoid IRQ 5, it's probably
possible to avoid the PLIP install
route, & install straight from ep0.
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after trying to fetch modules off floppy with "No floppy devices found".
"M. Warner
Losh" wrote freebsd-current@
That's because there's no working support in current/5.x
for the YE-Data pcmcia cards. It still works in 4.x, but
not 5.x, alas. I've done some work to make it happy, but
it still isn't happy with that work. The first problem is
the fast interrupt, but even with that fixed there's been
enough changes in the floppy driver
to make it no longer work.
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it loads Boot, Kern1, Kern2, then Boot, goes through Fdisk
& disklabel, then (as there's only 1 pcmcia slot, &
I cant even with a device rescan get it to see an ethernet
pcmcia or pcmcia cdrom card) ... I try to do ftp install,
using PLIP or SLIP ... & find it
doesn't see either of the 2 serials (one is mouse) or the
parallel port, as well as not recognising the fresh plugged
in & rescanned 3C589C pcmcia ethernet (that works well
on other FreeBSD boxes)
"M. Warner
Losh" wrote freebsd-current@
That's because the L-50 and L-70 machines have only ISA
PCMCIA bridges, and that's not yet completely working.
I'll try to fix this as I have at least one older laptop
that I'd like to see working that needs this.
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"Michael
Samer
No X for that chip set at the time. but his ether 3C589D
is perfectly supported by default FreeBSD-3.0.
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Owner: Julian
This machine had an upgrade from 16M to 32M of memory,
original owner told me.
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Notes From "Michael Samer"
The libretto (like all Toshiba's) do not really have a
full feature BIOS, but a small one:
press Escape key while switching on. It sound like it
tries to initialise the (big) docking station like I have
one, that's why it displays the lib+underside the docking
station. I repaired (and modified my Lib100) a lot of
librettos, mostly it's not to bad to fix (if it is a
hardware problem). I'd try to reset the whole libretto:
two batteries are included in the lib: one to unlock
under the palm and one inside. if U unlock 5-7 screws in
the downside and two (AFAIK) under the keyboard and
therefore removing the standby+CMOS battery for a few
minutes you should fix all software based errors. The
Lib50 to 70 is only the cpu different (p75 to P120).
There's no real disk verify tool, but a simple dos tool
to change the " BIOS" settings, again
press Escape+switch on. everything possible is there too.
As mentioned I'd repair it as long it's not the chip set
(rarely!) itself. The lib100 still has no hot dock
function, and the pci is not buffered.
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Owner: Astrid
This machine apparently was an early model, started life
with a Japanese keyboard, now has a german keyboard.
Presumably it also had a memory upgrade as it also has 32M
like my 70.
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Mine has a UK keyboard - Which moves double quote from
where the USA BIOS expects it, so do
this
echo "kbdcontrol -l uk.iso < /dev/console" >>
/etc/rc.local
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& then there's more to do with .xsession calling
xmodmap - sigh !
I hate all these national language variant keyboards !
( As a British citizen, resident in Germany, debugging
& configuring machines that invariably start with an
American Ascii BIOS, as someone who
also developed trilingual American/ German/ Russian
keyboard, (where even the numbers move, not just the
punctuation & Y & Z) ... I curse the day
typewriter marketing idiots a century ago developed
un-necessarily extensive different layout variations even
between English & American (eg " or @ above 2 etc. )
)
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When I put a physically wider disc in & it was a tight
fit, then holding it one handed on underground train caused
regular crashes after powering down after leaving train,
walking to restaurants, & reboot, with near endless
failing intensive Fsck's on the 12G disc, till the battery
was exhausted. Problem I think was pressure of left fingers
under body on disc.
Mark Murray
wrote:
Known problem. Take the cover off and remove the foam
tape spacers. Things will be MUCH better after that.
On a small slow CT50 you should make your own decision
regarding balance between performance & security. You
might want eg just a 64M swap, & have the rest of disc
as a single large root partition, horrible I agree, but
space is _short_. You might want less swap, & to
allocate a swap file later if needed. FreeBSD supports
this. you might want eg
tunefs -m 3 ad0a
tunefs -m 3 ad0e
tunefs -n enable ad0a
tunefs -n enable ad0e
tunefs -o space ad0a
tunefs -o space ad0e
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Mine (works with Libretto 70CT under MS & FreeBSD, but
not marked as a Toshiba product) reports in dmesg: acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA
CR-589> at ata2-master BIOSPIO The drive sounds high
speed. Optical Sensitivity: It read a home burnt cdrom. It
even read a 700M CD-RW. The Panasonic CR-588 is a 32X
CD-RW, as is the CR-589-B It does not seem to write.
Probably not a writer.
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Keep pushing Escape repeatedly & letting go, for about
2 or 3 times a second immediately after power up, for about
30 seconds, till it says "Check system. Then press [F1]
key." Press F1 & it goes into BIOS.
What Not To Do:
If I hold down either my ESC or F12 continuously (per
Satellite) before
power up (with FreeBSD resident via FDISK) I get no BIOS, just a loud shriek & a hanging
prompt. "Default F1:"
When I ran the battery flat (no APM) while FreeBSD was
running, & installed other good battery.. it came up
into BIOS.
BIOS Settings
| OPTION NAME |
ALTERNATE VALUES |
DEFAULT (After Home) |
MY SETTING |
COMMENT |
| LCD colours |
4096, 222K, 16M(256K). |
222K |
16M(256K) |
|
| Power On Display |
Internal/External, Simultaneous. |
Internal/External |
Internal/External |
| VGA Segment Address |
C000H, E000H, E400H, |
E400H |
E400h |
| Text Mode Stretch |
Enabled, Disabled. |
Enabled |
Enabled. |
Aspect Ratio: Full vertical use of
all screen pixels. |
| Hard Disk |
Enhanced IDE(Normal), Standard. |
Enhanced IDE(Normal). |
Enhanced IDE(Normal). |
| Serial |
COM1 (3F8H/IRQ4), COM2 (2F8H/IRQ3),
COM3 (3E8H/IRQ4), COM3 (3E8H/IRQ5), COM3 (3E8H/IRQ7),
COM4 (2E8H/IRQ3), COM4 (2E8H/IRQ5), COM4 (2E8H/IRQ7),
Not Used |
COM1 (3F8H/IRQ4) |
COM1 (3F8H/IRQ4) |
| Infrared |
COM1 (3F8H/IRQ4), COM2 (2F8H/IRQ3),
COM3 (3E8H/IRQ4), COM3 (3E8H/IRQ5), COM3 (3E8H/IRQ7),
COM4 (2E8H/IRQ3), COM4 (2E8H/IRQ5), COM4 (2E8H/IRQ7),
Not Used Also IrDA Compatible or ASK. |
COM2 (2F8H/IRQ3),IrDA
Compatible. |
COM2(2F8H/IRQ3), IrDA
Compatible. |
| Infrared Mode |
IrDA Compatible, or ASK. |
IrDA Compatible. |
IrDA Compatible. |
| Parallel: |
LPT1 (378H/IRQ7/CH3), LPT2
(278H/IRQ5/CH3), LPT3 (3BCH/IRQ5/CH3), Not Used |
LPT1 (378H/IRQ7/CH3) |
LPT1 (378H/IRQ7/CH3) |
| Parallel Options: |
ECP, Std. Bi.-Direct. |
ECP |
ECP |
| Parallel Options DMA Channel: |
1,2,3 |
3 |
3 |
| Sound |
Enabled, Disabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
| WSS I/O Address |
530H, 540H, 550H, 560H |
530H |
530H |
| SBPro IO Address |
220H, 240H |
220H |
220H |
| Synthesiser IO Address |
388H |
388H |
388H |
| WSS & SBPro & MPU401
IRQ Level |
IRQ5, 7, 9, 11, 15 |
IRQ5 |
IRQ5 |
| WSS(Play) DMA |
Channel 1, 3, 0 |
Channel 1 |
Channel 1 |
| SBPro DMA |
Channel 0, Same as WSS, 3 |
Channel 0 |
Channel 0 |
| Control IO Address |
370H |
370H |
370H |
| MPU401 (MIDI I/F) |
330H |
330H |
330H |
| Power-up Mode |
Boot, Hibernation. |
Boot |
Boot |
| If Hibernation |
0 Min., 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 50,
Unlimited. |
5 Min. |
5 Min. |
| CPU Cache |
Enabled, Disabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
| If Enabled, Write Policy |
Write-back, Write-through. |
Write-back. |
Write-back. |
| Alarm Volume |
Options: Off, Low, Medium, High. |
Medium. |
Medium. |
| Low Battery Alarm |
Enabled, Disabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
| Panel Close Alarm |
Enabled, Disabled |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| System Beep |
Enabled, Disabled |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| Alarm Power On |
Disabled, or time & date |
Disabled. |
Disabled. |
Difficult to Disable except by HOME
key which resets all options. |
| Pointing Device |
Auto Select or Simultaneous. |
Auto Select |
Auto Select |
| Boot Priority |
FDD->HDD, HDD->FDD. |
FDD->HDD. |
HDD->FDD. |
| Time & Date |
|
|
|
NO OPTION ! Why Not ? Don't know of
any way to set & display except via Unix date
command or equivalent. |
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My red moulded cable with wording "Interlink Parallel" does
not work for PLIP, A yellow cable & a home made cable do.
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Definitely install this ! It enables screen brightness &
power management modes.
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After working though every option on libretto-config in parallel, on both
my 70 & Astrid's 50, her machine repeatedly, as soon as I
pulled the mains power (after being connected for hours &
powered up) went into shutdown mode (3 rectangles, middle
blue scrolling to right). This leads me to suppose
- Battery doesn't charge when connected & powered up
(to save excessive current load on charger circuity)
- Somewhere 32+ Meg of disc was being trashed ! On hers
(but not mine) I configured 64M of swap as first entry in
disklabel, (which same on both, sits within an fdisk
MBR).
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dmesg from a Generic kernel
shows:
pccardd[49]: Card "Y-E DATA"("External FDD") [Controller] [2.00] matched "Y-E DATA" ("External FDD") [(null)] [(null)]
fdc1: <Y-E Data PCMCIA floppy> at port 0x3a8-0x3af irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
pccardd[49]: fdc1: Y-E DATA (External FDD) inserted.
This Kernel config change suffices:
- Generic: device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq
2
- Libretto: device fdc0
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have allocated last 20+40M as 2 swap
hoping hibernate will dump into last 40M on disc
have allocated first 100 to root to allow differential tunefs etc
plan to do similar on mine later
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* Sam van Ratt: Re Libretto 100: NM2093 aka Neomagic 128ZX
* Sam van Ratt: Re Libretto70ct: no HD DMA support at all.
Mouse +keyboard is standard PS/2; PCMCIA is a ToPIC100 chip set,
* sound should be a Yamaha OPL3-SAx, IrDA (not working in my 100CT) is a
SMC
* FIR 4Mbit.
My 2G disc (Toshiba MK2105 MAT, HDD 2119B DC 5V 0.7A) seems to be
about 7.5 mm with 1 or 2 mm free in the libretto slot. I see new
(@ 2004.11) Toshiba, Hitachi & Fujitsu discs in a price list as all
9.5 mm.
A Toshiba MK1403MAV HDD2714 (5V 0.7A)
of about 11mm (nominal 12 or so ?)
does not fit.
Note also screw holes are in
different positions, to which the pull lever attaches, though that
of itself is not insurmountable I guess, just the disc height).
Note also disc is mounted upside down.
a: 204800 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 97 # (Cyl. 0 - 203*)
b: 40960 4118528 swap # (Cyl. 4085*- 4126*)
c: 4233537 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4199*)
e: 3913728 204800 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 203*- 4085*)
f: 74049 4159488 swap # (Cyl. 4126*- 4199*)
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, asynchronous, NFS exported, local)
/dev/ad0s1e on /usr (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates)
swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/ad0s1b 20352 6656 13696 33% Interleaved
/dev/ad0s1f 36896 6552 30344 18% Interleaved
Total 57248 13208 44040 23%
http://www.fixup.net (rec.
from Mark Murray)
I have given this URL
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