Backlight stuck on full with Toshiba Satellite L770

As the title says, my backlight's stuck on full. I've tried quite a few things, which I'll list here:
I do have a device in /sys, located at
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
I can read a value from it, or send a value to it, and it will remain persistant accross a reboot. However, it doesn't do anything besides sit there and look pretty.
The fact that it's called acpi_video0 implies that this is a generic acpi driver, rather than the toshiba specific driver. Unfortunately, running
modprobe -v toshiba_acpi
insmod /lib/modules/3.7.5-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.ko.gz
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'toshiba_acpi': No such device
Which is annoying. So, then I tried passing this to the kernel:
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
This booted fine, but my /sys file completely disappeared, rather than renaming itself. Querying lsmod showed that the toshiba_acpi module wasn't running.
Next, I tried the nvidia_bl driver, which apparently works sometimes.
modprobe -v nvidia_bl
insmod /lib/modules/3.7.5-1-ARCH/extramodules/nvidia_bl.ko
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_bl': No such device
No such luck!
Okay, fine. I'll try talking to the video card directly, and see if that works.
setpci -v -s 01:00.0 F4.B=0
0000:01:00.0 @f4 00
Which is nice, but it didn't change the backlight.
The strangest thing is, the acpi functions that usually break on other machines work fine for me. I can see my CPU temperature, fan speed, and battery level without any trouble at all. I can even switch the backlight off, if I want to; I just can't dim it.
Some extra info:
[alan@purplecouch ~]$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0dec (rev a1)
This is interesting, as nvidia-settings reports my card is a Geforce GT 525m, whereas lspci sees it as generic. I'm not sure if this is related.

Okay, not so good news. I rewrote the Makefile (Okay, I plagiarized it from elsewhere in these Forums ). It looks like the code uses a structure to build a /proc entry. That structure has changed (apparently). I will look and see if it can be patched.
ewaller@odin:~/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi[2] 1037 %cat Makefile
obj-m += toshiba_smi.o
all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean
ewaller@odin:~/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi 1038 %make
make -C /lib/modules/3.7.6-1-ARCH/build M=/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.7.6-1-ARCH'
CC [M] /home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.o
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c: In function 'toshiba_proc_write':
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:333:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int *', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int *' [-Wformat]
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c: In function 'create_proc_entries':
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:356:17: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:363:28: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:372:20: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:381:29: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:390:24: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:399:25: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.c:408:23: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner'
make[2]: *** [/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi/toshiba_smi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ewaller/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.7.6-1-ARCH'
make: *** [all] Error 2
ewaller@odin:~/devel/toshibaBacklight/toshiba_smi[2] 1039 %

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                     {6E8329FF-B642-418B-BCF0-BCB6591E255F}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
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       D3D9 Overlay: Not Supported
            DXVA-HD: Not Supported
       DDraw Status: Enabled
         D3D Status: Enabled
         AGP Status: Enabled
Sound Devices
            Description: Speakers (Conexant SmartAudio HD)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5114&SUBSYS_1179FA85&REV_1001
        Manufacturer ID: 1
             Product ID: 100
                   Type: WDM
            Driver Name: CHDRT64.sys
         Driver Version: 8.65.0002.0000 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
            WHQL Logo'd: Yes
          Date and Size: 7/18/2013 16:16:38, 1387712 bytes
            Other Files:
        Driver Provider: Conexant
         HW Accel Level: Basic
              Cap Flags: 0xF1F
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Sound Capture Devices
            Description: Microphone (Conexant SmartAudio HD)
Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: Yes
            Driver Name: CHDRT64.sys
         Driver Version: 8.65.0002.0000 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
          Date and Size: 7/18/2013 16:16:38, 1387712 bytes
              Cap Flags: 0x1
           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF
Video Capture Devices
Number of Devices: 1
           FriendlyName: TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD
               Location: Front
           SymbolicLink: \\?\usb#vid_04f2&pid_b3b1&mi_00#6&2bb16674&0&0000#{e5323777-f976-4f5b-9b55-b94699c46e44}\ global
           Manufacturer: Microsoft
             HardwareID: USB\VID_04F2&PID_B3B1&REV_5716&MI_00,USB\VID_04F2&PID_B3B1&MI_00
             DriverDesc: USB Video Device
         DriverProvider: Microsoft
          DriverVersion: 6.3.9600.16384
      DriverDateEnglish: 6/21/2006 00:00:00
    DriverDateLocalized: 6/21/2006 12:00:00 AM
                Service: usbvideo
                  Class: Image
          DevNodeStatus: 180200A[DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
            ContainerId: {00000000-0000-0000-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF}
            ProblemCode: No Problem
BusReportedDeviceDesc: TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD
                 Parent: USB\VID_04F2&PID_B3B1\0x0001
      DriverProblemDesc: n/a
           UpperFilters: n/a
           LowerFilters: n/a
                  Stack: \Driver\ksthunk,\Driver\usbvideo,\Driver\ACPI,\Driver\usbccgp
      ContainerCategory: Imaging

Scanner 6300C not communicating with Toshiba Satellite/Windows ME

I recently restored Windows ME on a Toshiba 2805 Satellite notebook. I'm having a problem connecting an HP 6300C scanner by way of USB cable. In my Device Manager, the 6300C shows up as an installed scanner and is shown connected to the USB Root Hub (under Universal Serial Bus controllers). However starting the HP Scanjet software from the CD-installed icon, I get the message that the computer is: "Unable to communicate with the imaging device . . . " and "the scanner could not be initialized." So, can I get some help on this problem. Thanks. -- Gene

Thanks for your help. I've updated windows, however It's not working yet.
I've also followed the instructions at this url:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound/Microphone-doesn-t-work-after-Windows-clean-install/td-p/21...
But to no avail.
The computer I'm working on is Windows 7, 32Bit, with AMD/ATI graphics. I was wrong in my previous post.
I'll correct it.

Issue with Elan Touchpad disabling with Toshiba Satellite P55W-B5112 after startup

Upgraded the laptop from 8.1 to Windows 10 and after I rebooted it a couple of times, the cursor/touchpad becomes disabled after a few minutes. I can go to settings and re-enable in Mouse settings, but then the left/right click pads don't work. I saw some older postings about this in a Windows community related to older builds of Windows 10 but would have thought this would be fixed by now. Looked for newer drivers and not finding anything. Anyone else having this issue and figure out a way to fix it?

Jerry_Lippey wrote:
Satellite S55T-B5158 Downloads here. And put the part number (PSPQCU-004001) in here. Update the drivers and utilities for Windows 10.Jerry, any help for P55W-B users? this post is about this model but I see no solutions, this is frustrating! please help!!!

Toshiba Satellite A100 Gaming issue.

Hey, I've been trying to play a game "Minecraft" with Toshiba Satellite A100 Paaskc-Wa104c and I had used Windows Vista Business and I used Clean-Install. The game im trying to join called "Minecraft" Is saying that im Missing my Driver for my Video card. My video card is Radeon Xpress 200m and I've been downloading the driver multiple times in different ways. And still no progress. Please help me! Thanks.

Satellite A100-WA1 (PSAAKC-WA104C)
The drivers and so forth for that Canadian model are here.
I don't see any for Windows XP. Your best bet to make that computer work as intended is to obtain the recovery discs from Toshiba and return it to Windows Vista Home Basic. Call 866-413-0222 or 416-502-1403.
-Jerry

Toshiba Satellite p75-A7200 stuck on toshiba logo after bios change

My Toshiba Satellite p75-A7200 is stuck on toshiba logo after bios change.
entered bios fine changes from UEFI to CSM boot and now i cannot enter bios or boot past toshiba logo.
Ive tried F2 tapping and holding while powering up the laptop(tried every Fkey,DEL,ESC, with and without FN key)
cannot re-enter bios.
Also i tried to run the bios update cd created multiple 1.50 1.40 even 1.00, it doesnt seem to read any media.
i tried holding C, FN+C and f and just about every key on the keyboard to get something to work. i had dvd as top of boot priority for a while now so i shouldnt have to try f12 or holding C before boot but i tried . it doesnt seem to read any media
i tried windows 8 install cd, Ubuntu, centos, nothing goes past toshiba logo and no errors, i dont get the non bootable device error so its seems to not be reading the dvd. (dvd does spin and make read noises) im trying to find my usb floppy drive to try a floppy version but it acts like its not reading any media.
I also pulled the HDD and all usb devices to make the dvd the only media available and with the HDD out it spins then toshiba logo then black screen with solid white horizontal curser on top left of screen.(only happens when hdd out)
is there some type of key combination that will force a bios update or a crisis recovery mode for bios.
I also Pulled the battery for 2 solid days(battery,cmos battery, and power supply and held power button for about 10 mins while watching tx to make sure the thing was drained before the 2 day sit with no power at all.
this happened the second i changed from UEFI to CSM boot so its not a motherboard problem or anything like that because all was well before this setting change.
I already pulled the HDD and backed it up to another drive and swapped it to elimiate that.
any ideas on a secret key combo to force a bios read from dvd or usb or anythng.
or another combo that im just missing to enter bios after CSM boot.
UPDATE
to do a crisis recovery on this laptop
1 get a usb stick and format it in fat or fat32
2 download "7zip" and install it if you dont have it.
3 download bios from toshiba website.
4 run the installer for bios but dont choose and option just close it we just want to extract the files to the location normally c:\splnvxxx where xxx is the version number like 150
5 goto the installed locaion "c:\splnv150" or whatever number.
6. find file os2014273a_150 or something similar. it will be an application, it will end in version number _150, and it will also have a disc image file of the same name. but we want the app.
7. right click on it and you should have an option 7zip then extract
once extracted there is a folder now archesxxxxxx_bios_v150_win
8 copy the bios file located in archesxxxxxblahblah/X64/BIOS.fd , BIOS.fd is the bios and just copy that to a BLANK usb thumb drive that was formatted with fat or fat32.
9. put usb into your satellite and unplug the power from it.
10 holding FN + ESC key together plug the power back in and press power button.
11. release keys FN and ESC if all is right it will have the power button and led on from blink abut every 1 second while it searches for the bios. once its done it will reboot and you should be good to go.
if it keeps cycling with the power button then the bios is named wrong or something is not right with the usb. try reformatting it again and make sure that the bios file is the ONLY thing on the drive.

Ok a little research and digging into the bios exe downloaded from toshiba shows this has INSYDE BIOS witch should have a recovery process wich i prepared a usb stick with just the bios.fd on it found some post around toshiba forums with different models using win +B or Fn + F but neither of these worked for me to force bios update
anyone with this model know the key combo to force recovery

Satellite L300 Windows 7 back to Vista with Toshiba Recovery CDs

Hello all,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Series L300 (2008 model) laptop which originally had Vista but I installed Windows 7 Professional on it. I now wish to return back to Vista.
I noted that the 'Windows.old' folder created on the C:/ drive seems to be missing a lot of files and could have been altered since the date it was created. I think it would be too risky to use it to recover back to Vista.
So my question is can I use my original set of Toshiba Recovery DVDs to get back to Vista? I want to do a full factory reset to recover my system to when it was originally purchased with Vista.
If the Recovery DVDs is not an option and the only was is by using the Windows.old folder, if it is lacking important files could it leave my system corrupted? I am sure there is a way to get back to Vista by factory restore somehow.
Comments and feedback urgently required!
Thanks in advance.

Hello sauza
Wait a moment. You mix two different things. If you want to install original recovery image it can be done on two ways:
# Using created recovery discs DVDs
# Install image using HDD recovery method (recovery image saved on HDD)
>Ok but how do I use the Toshiba recovery disks to reset my computer back to Vista factory settings?
This question is related to method 1.
>I press F8 at start-up---> select Repair computer---> select my language----> Then it gives me Windows 7 Options to only Restore by Disk Image which I created at a earlier date.
This description is related to method 2 and has nothing with installation with Toshiba recovery disks as you wrote in your last posting.
Method 2 can be used if notebook has factory settings. After own OS installation recovery image is not available anymore and recovery image can be installed with recovery discs only.
I hope you understand now how it works.
If you have more questions please let me know.

Toshiba Satellite S70-B - Keyboard backlight not working?

Hello, I purchased a brand new Toshiba Satellite S70-B laptop with Windows 8 on it. When I received it, I removed the harddrive and installed a SSD with Windows 7 on it. After getting help from Toshiba support, all the drivers and harware seem to work except the backlight keyboard? I spoken to several Toshiba support techs and finally came to the conclusion to send it in to change out the keyboard. Yet I fear if I send it in, they will remove my SSD and reinstall a hardrive with Windows 8 as their solution. Does anyone have other suggestions... ?? Any help is appreciated.

I am having problems with my keyboard backlight too. I spilled water on mine and had to totally take it apart, until then I never had any problem with the shortcut key turning it on and off. I found this last night. Unfortunately. it didn't work for me Also became disappointed when I searched and searched for that magic timer on my desktop he spoke of. Let me know. 1) Shut down laptop
2) Turn on and start tapping the F2 button until you get to the BIOS screen
3) Scroll over to power management and change the setting for your backlit keyboard from off to on.
4) Press F10 to save and continue to start up.
5) Enjoy.
Believe it or not, I JUST fixed this issue on my own a665D laptop. I am still tweaking it though because after this, the shortcut keys don't allow you to turn the backlight off so I'm typing on a keyboard who's LED's wont go off as of yet. But this should help for now.--REVISION: I am done "tweaking it" as I have found the answer and it was glaring me in the face. Instead of just turning it to the ON position through BIOS, turn it to TIMER. You can set the amount of time you want it to stay on when ever you press a key and the FN+Z shortcut works when this is set up so you can turn the keyboard on, off, or to follow the timer right from your desktop. I hope this helped.
Asker's rating & comment
5 out of 5
You are officially awesome. Worked perfectly; I never would have ventured into the BIOS without an exact guide like you gave (Would have blown up the laptop or something lol). But anyway, thanks so much,

Problem with brightness control on Toshiba Satellite R830 [SOLVED]

Ever since I've been using Linux on my Toshiba Satellite R830 laptop I had problems with the brightness setting after wakeup from sleep. The solution I had found was to use a custom xorg.conf setup. Actually I was creating a 20-intel.conf file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the following content:
Section "Device"
Identifier "card0"
Driver "intel"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
This worked until today. Now I realised that Xorg is somewhat ignoring this configuration file. I looked in the wiki and this suggested that any such config files should be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. I copied the file there and rebooted. I opened a terminal and checked the value of /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/actual_brightness. Modified the brightness with the Fn + F6/F7 and checked again and it was controlling these.
But after closing the lid and leaving it for a while, and wakeing up the PC the Fn +F6/F7 keys started controlling /sys/class/backlight/toshiba/ which never worked after sleep. Somehow on wakeup the custom config files are being ignored. It seems this is related to the upgrade to Gnome 3.16. I'm using linux-lts kernel.
How do I make Xorg use intel_backlight instead of Toshiba for brightness control?
Last edited by entodoays (2015-05-18 15:21:04)

It seems that the culprit is /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper. In this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11910629 there's a procedure to patch the source file (for an older version). There's a section of the code like this:
/* available kernel interfaces in priority order */
static const gchar *backlight_interfaces[] = {
"nv_backlight",
"asus_laptop",
"toshiba",
"eeepc",
"thinkpad_screen",
"acpi_video1",
"mbp_backlight",
"acpi_video0",
"fujitsu-laptop",
"nvidia_backlight",
"samsung",
NULL,
Patching this file, eliminating the toshiba device from the preferred list and adding intel_backlight to it might solve the issue.
On another page, https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-po … issues/135 they suggest another possible hack: changing the priority of device type
file plugins/power/gsd-backlight-helper.c
/* search the backlight devices and prefer the types:
* firmware -> platform -> raw */
path = gsd_backlight_helper_get_type (devices, "firmware");
if (path != NULL)
goto out;
path = gsd_backlight_helper_get_type (devices, "platform");
if (path != NULL)
goto out;
path = gsd_backlight_helper_get_type (devices, "raw");
if (path != NULL)
goto out;
Changing the order to firmware -> raw -> platform would solve the problem for me too.
Unfortunately I've never done any patching yet. How would I go about it?
Last edited by entodoays (2015-05-12 07:22:06)

Hi. I am running Windows 8.1 on a 64 bit Toshiba Satellite P70-A laptop with 16Gb of RAM. I have installed Adobe Creative Suite 6 - Master Collection. All is fine except for Adobe Acrobat X. It runs OK for a while, but then suddenly it won't work. I uni

Hi. I am running Windows 8.1 on a 64 bit Toshiba Satellite P70-A laptop with 16Gb of RAM. I have installed Adobe Creative Suite 6 - Master Collection. All is fine except for Adobe Acrobat X. It runs OK for a while, but then suddenly it won't work. I uninstall it, re-boot and re-install again, bit the same process repeats itself and once again I have to uninstall and re-install again. I don't know if windows update interferes with it? Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is it fixable?

I think you'd be much better off asking in the Acrobar forum, Acrobat

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