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03 June 2009

Linux Mint Gloria on Toshiba Portege 4010

Linux the more light, this is evidenced by Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) that are running smoothly in the Toshiba Portege 4010 laptop (P3 933GHz, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB HDD)

Linux Mint 7


Install process does not have a problem, the main problem in the only resolution that can not be made because the 1024 × 768 maximum resolution option most high 800 × 600. Finally, the problems can be resolved with edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf as :

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi”
FontPath “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
# path to defoma fonts
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 37,9-68,7
VertRefresh 60-85
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/Ai1″
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 1
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 4
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “bitmap”
Load “dbe”
Load “ddc”
Load “dri”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
Load “int10″
Load “record”
Load “type1″
Load “v4l”
Load “vbe”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/Ai1″
Driver “trident”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0″
VideoRam 16000
Option “UseFBDev” “true”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “DontZap” “False”
EndSection


Second problem is in the wireless, but the problem is easily resolved with ndiswrapper