Slight issue on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Slight issue on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX
started by: Dhalamar

Posted by Dhalamar on Dec. 06 2006,21:06

Can someone tell me how to get sound working with this thing? I honestly don't know the specs of the machine. I've googled around, but all I can find are memory prices.

I do know is that it's a Pentium 133 with 64MB of RAM (16MB base I think)

And another slight issue is that the thing only supports an 800x600 resolution, and I got it changed in X, but not the console. So I can't really use the console full screen because it defaulted to (I think) 1024x768. :)

But the main issue is the sound not working. If anyone could possibly help it'd be appreciated. :)

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 06 2006,21:29

Try finding it in lspci -v or System Stats.

About your video: yes the cd boots into a 1024x768 fb console by default... you may choose to use one of the vga= or fb codes (see wiki or press F2/F3 on start).

Posted by jrdsl on Dec. 30 2006,15:22

I got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT and had no sound initially.
I googled a lot and eventually I had enough info to get it going - but can't remember how I put it all together...

Anyway, the way it's done on mine is: added the following line to the /opt/bootlocal.sh :

modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

The above is all on one line
Putting it in /opt/bootlocal.sh gets it to run every time you start the laptop.
To test it you can just run it on a command line - root shell I suppose
Maybe it'll work for you too, good luck!

Posted by KeatonTech on Jan. 14 2007,15:48

I still have an audio problem with my toshiba portege 3015ct. I ran that command, and I got audio ... if you hold the speaker right up to your ear. The speaker is at full volume. I hear 3.2RC3 has volume control, should I try that or is there aqn easier way (I'm on 3.2RC2)?

Posted by roberts on Jan. 14 2007,18:39

Volume control has been available for a long time.
Click on the dMix button in the lower right hand corner.

Volume control persistency is a new feature.

Posted by KeatonTech on Jan. 14 2007,21:11

Wow, that was easy,a nd now i feal stupid....

Thanks for the help

Posted by Rbpegram3 on Jan. 22 2007,20:25

Quote (KeatonTech @ Jan. 14 2007,10:48)

"I still have an audio problem with my toshiba portege 3015ct. I ran that command, and I got audio ... if you hold the speaker right up to your ear."

Hi, a newbie question, but how is DSL running in general on the 3015CT?

I am playing with a Portege 3010CT that my brother-in-law got for $20 and love the little thing. However, it has XP on it and pages constantly. What should take seconds, takes up to 10 minutes on it! The specs for it are similar to the 3015CT.

We want a Linux based replacement for Win 9X on it, but running modern web and email apps, as well as a wordpad like editor, and perhaps an IM client. It has a 802.11b card in it, and the vendor does have Linux drivers for that.

Please direct me to the proper forum, perhaps user feedback, if this is not the right place to post this.

That said, the idea of a modern os / system running comfortably on a 266 Mhz Pentium, with 64MB Ram and 4.3 Gigs of drive with 800x600 VGA graphics is very, very appealing! I had an Atari ST in the 80s and it was responsive enough for what you did with it then. It only had 1MB Ram and an 8Mhz cpu. I would have loved the PC card slots and the USB port on it...

Bob P.