heya--
Long time no post, please be nice. :-)
I've recently had a stolen laptop replaced with a Toshiba Satellite
P870[0]. I currently have debian wheezy 64bit installed, but am having
issues getting some hardware to work. The kernel I'm currently running
is 3.4.0-10.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 from liquorix.net.
My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable
"type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia GPUs.
The liquorix kernel made the intel driver work. I had full resolution
1920x1080 and the HDMI worked(no sound). Then I installed
xul-ext-firegestures which then caused the i915 kernel module to give me
"exec format error".
After some googling I found the bumblebee[1] project. This apparently
allows you to switch video cards. Without researching to much I
installed this package from their debian repo. Now the i915 kernel
module is loaded, but lspci does not show it as the driver being used
for the video card.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fb12
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
Memory at da000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
root@vengeance:~# lsmod | grep i915
i915 462952 0
intel_agp 11729 1 i915
intel_gtt 16373 3 i915,intel_agp
drm_kms_helper 39025 2 i915,nouveau
drm 247551 4 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 5749 2 i915,nouveau
i2c_core 25541 7
drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
video 12217 2 i915,nouveau
button 5121 2 i915,nouveau
What I'd like to do is run the nvidia card as my primary video, if I
don't have the choice to switch between the two.
The next issue with this laptop is the ethernet card.
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit
Eth (rev 10)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
Memory at da600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [c0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [d8] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-22-6b-b8-00-26-6c-ff
To try and get this to work I downloaded the comapt[2] wireless source
for the 3.4 kernel. I then ran the select-driver script for the alx
drivers. The make ran fine. However during the make install I received.
Note: iwlagn detected, we're going to disable it. If you would like to
enable it later you can run:
sudo iwl-load iwlagn
Running iwl-enable iwlwifi...
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
Module iwl4965 not detected -- this is fine
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
Module iwlagn not detected -- this is fine
Note: atl1c detected, we're going to disable it. If you would like to
enable it later you can run:
sudo alx-load atl1c
Running alx-enable alx...
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
Module atl1c not detected -- this is fine
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
depmod will prefer updates/ over kernel/ -- OK!
I haven't done anything else for this issue, so any tips would be
greatly appreciated.
Full lspci -v output[3] and lsmod[4] output have been placed on pastebin.
On my wish list to get working also is:
- backlit keyboard (I've tried acpi=off[5])
- keyboard special keys
- tv tuner
Bonus points for tips to get drivers for the ones in lspci that don't
have a kernel driver loaded.
I've tried to supply as much information as I can, if anything is
missing please let me know!
--julian
0 - http://bit.ly/RFWoLB
1 - http://bumblebee-project.org/
2 - http://bit.ly/OnkXCb
3 - http://pastebin.com/a0dPFeLB
4 - http://pastebin.com/zbWrDVx3
5 - http://bit.ly/NXrFz9
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