Ubuntu 8.04 on Satellite L500-12P problems

There are display/video problems installing Ubuntu 8.04 on L500-12P.
Ubuntu 9.04 works perfect, but I need to work only with 8.04
Please help me to solve this problem, where to get display drivers? I tried to install chipset utility for windows, and display drivers for windows with no success.
Thank you in advance!

Hi,
In response to your question, you can run python 2.5 using Ubuntu 9.10. Just make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list has the main repository enabled - just enable them all (System > Administration > Software Sources) and then:
$ sudo apt-get install python2.5
or select python2.5 from Synaptic.
If you require a specific revision of the python2.5 release, right click on the package, select Properties, and go to the version tab. Take a look at which version you want, then from the main Synaptic window, go to Package > Force Version...
Hope that helps mate. Anyway, what brought me across this forum, I have just bought an L500 19X and plan to use Ubuntu Linux on it. Just out of curiosity, how does it run? What works / what doesn't. I can't find a whole lot of information on this laptop. I already run Ubuntu on a U300 14B perfectly with everything working, and I'd like to get this new system up to the same standard.
Thanks
Luke

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HDD recovery with Satellite l500 Problem

this was my favorite feature with the L500 Laptop..PSLj0c-00w008..whenever my computer was running slow from all stuff...i would hit 0 and power Button and it will bring it back to the state as to where i bought it..i was formatting it the other day and my daughter hit the quit button half way through and when i tried to recover..it told me that i was missing an install.wim File...Can someone tell me how i can fix this back up..i go into my computer and i seee the HDDrecovery under D:...i never made restore disks because i had this feature..Can someone help me get back to the out of Box State that the computer was in....Thanks in advance..it would be really appreciated...

Satellite L500-00W (PSLJ0C-00W008)
Specs and Manual are attached.
You will need to order the recovery discs from Toshiba by calling 866-413-0222 or 416-502-1403.
i never made restore disks because i had this feature..
What happens when you need to replace the hard drive? Remember, there are only two kinds: Those that have failed and those that will fail.
-Jerry
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Satellite L650D-12P - Can I install a Linux distribution on it?

Hi.
5 months ago, I probably made one of my biggest mistakes; I bought a Satellite L650D-12P. To my horror, I discovered the inability of the computer, to use or even install Linux of any kind.
Since I bought it, I've tried about 4 times a month, to install Linux, to no avail. I've tried searching through Linux forums, tried several tweaks, etc. The Insyde H2O BIOS of the L650D-12P just doesn't work with any distro, the newest BIOS (which were released 6 months ago) doesn't change anything, either. The ACPI is totally off, the DSDT tables are corrupt. Other people report of general ACPI problems with Toshiba machines; it seems I am not the only one.
Is this how it's supposed to be? The customer is refused the right, to use the operating system he wishes? Are we forced to use only Microsoft products? Even Apple machines can install other operating systems.
I thought the age of forcing software upon people were long gone. Alas, it is not.

Hello Kesse,
I have been able to install Ubuntu on my Toasiba satellite L650D
Ubuntu 10.04
On the purple screen press any key
Press F6
Press escape
now press Tab and add
pcie_aspm=off
Hit enter and be patient, it worked for me.
Same procedure with Ubuntu10.10 and 11.04
But before you reboot:
open gedit in terminal
Edit the file /etc/default/grub insert pcie_aspm=off as boot option
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash pcie_aspm=off
save and recompile grub.cfg with the command:
sudo update-grub
Good luck.
Bozox
Message was edited by: Bozox

Satellite U400-12P - Multimedia Shortcut Keys illuminates 24-7

Hey everyone,
I am new to this forum and I hope someone will solve the problem I have.
I own a Toshiba Satellite U400-12P (been a year now). Past few days I have noticed that the multimedia keys (PLAY/PAUSE/FFD/RWD/) isn't functiong (doesnt respond to my touch) + multimedia keys illuminates 24-7;that is even if the computer is switched off the shortcut keys are shining brightly. I have no clue why this is taking place.
If someone has a solution to this. I shall greatly appreciate it.
Thanx

Hi every body,
Lately, am trying to light the multimedia keys, which i used to do it by touching the mute key,
but unfortunately the keys and even the word satellite and the light over the mouse are not lightning even though the ,mutimedia keys are working normally,
would you please support me how to light these keys again?
Thanks.

UPDATE : Toshiba Recovery Wizard 'cannot read from source file or disk' error (satellite L500)

UPDATE 2: Phoned Toshiba tech support again, guided by techie to begin the recovery again. Just before phoning I was able to go into recovery options and view the drive setup and all the files that couldn't be read are on the CD so I've no idea why the error kept occuring, and neither did the techie. Fingers crossed it works this time but I'm not overly hopefully given that we've just done exactly the same as I did before. UPDATE 1: I got into the BIOS and reset everything back to defaults and yay, my toshiba recovery wizard now starts! :-D On the down side, when trying to do a factory default software / out of the box recovery I continually get error messages with regards to copying the files, for example
cannot read from source file or disk
7z.dll
Type application extension
size 585kb
date modified 7/14/2009 10.26pm
other read / copy errors include PREINST6.SWM, BOOT_32, BOOTPRIORITY, CHECKMAXPTSIZE, CHGBOOT, CPU, CPUCHECK, CREATEPARTITION, CTRLDRVINFO, DISKWIPE, DMI, DPINST32, EBLIB.DLL, ERRORDIALOG, EW3BOOTSEQ, FWLINK, FWLINK.SYS, GETHDDINFO, GETKEYSTATE, IMAGEX, INFILED, INITRECAREA, KRAIADAPI.DLL ..... at which point I decided to 'skip all' :-/
Any explanations as to what's going on and how I might be able to fix it would be very much appreciated! :-) Thank you!
I have a two and half year old satellite L500 with an Intel i-3 and 4 gigs of RAM, on which I was running Windows 7.
Admittedly it’s had rather a hard life (I ran some very demanding CAD / graphics software on it) but it had always performed well until just recently, when after suffering several BSOD (which had never happened before), the hard drive failed.
I partitioned and formatted a brand new hard drive (which is perfectly fine and functions normally when hooked up to another laptop with a SATA to USB cable) and obtained system recovery discs from Toshiba. Unfortunately, when I try and run the first disc, windows starts to load files but then generates an error screen with the message Error F3-F100-0003 and a request to turn the computer off.
When I use the windows Memory Diagnostic to get into the Windows Boot Manager Screen I get the following;
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware / software change might be the case.
To fix the problem
Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer
Choose your language settings and click ‘next’
Click ‘repair your computer’
File: \boot\memtest.exe
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
I can also use F8 on startup to get into the advanced boot options but selecting any of them simply results in the F3-F100-0003 error message. I’ve run a memory test using the UBCD, which tells me the memory is fine, and tried another hard drive (which also works perfectly well in another laptop) but no joy. On phoning Toshiba support the techie said my hard drive had failed, but as I say, both hard drives are perfectly fine / usable when hooked up to another laptop. I’m now completely stuck as to what the problem is and how I might resolve it – any advice / suggestions would be most gratefully received! Thank you in advance :-)

Satellite L655-S5096
Downloads here.
the second disc gives me the the "cannot read from source file or disk PREINST8.SWM"
My best guess is that the disc is not readable. Try copying it to another. Sometimes that works.
Otherwise, order new discs from Toshiba.
-Jerry

Satellite L500 and issues with wireless connection

Hello people
Ill just throw my problem out there.
First of all my details and info which may help you help me!
Satellite L500 running windows 7 (note: same issues when Vista was installed)
Latest wireless drivers as well as latest drivers for everything else.
My wireless router is a billion voip enabled router 7000 series its quite a good one for when I got it about 2 yrs ago and works fine.
Basically the problem is the wireless on my Satellite L500 keeps dropping out. Im no more than 20m away at most, right now Im 10m away with 1 wall in the way. I tried to get to a website and it says connection dropped out or unable to find host.
However the other laptops in the same room same spot at the same time has no issues at all. Never has.
As soon as I go into the same room as my router it works again. Sometimes works if I just stand on the opposite wall.
So basically Im thinking my wireless card in my laptop is either faulty or just no good?
Can u replace the wireless card with a different one? Maybe the Toshiba ones are just no good? Ive read so many problems with these wireless cards in Toshibas...
Anyone have any ideas? Have I missed any info u need? Ill repost again in a day or so with the types of wireless devices in each laptop.

Hi
At the moment I doubt that your WLAN card is faulty. Before you exchange it you should also update your BIOS and not only the WLAN card driver. Both updates you should download from the Toshiba website:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Download Drivers
I had a similar issue with my Toshiba notebook and WLAN connection. The problem was the WLAN power saving mode in Windows Power Management. There you can also choose a power saving mode for the WLAN card. Disable it and choose Maximum Performance.

Satellite L500-13e connected to TV with HDMI cable - no sound on TV

Hi! Sorry my English is bad.
I have a problem, i tried to connect my notebook with TV through HDMI, but
sound playing on notebook rather than TV ...
In Realtek HD Manager i didn't find "HDMI Output options"
Please, suggest what should I do?

The whole story is a little bit strange now.
As far as I know Satellite L500-13E is delivered with preinstalled Vista Home Premium and all drivers must be preinstalled.
I don't understand how you can suddenly have this yellow question mark in device manager.
What have you done with your notebook?
Anyway, at first try to remove sound device from device manager and restart your notebook. If the yellow question mark is still there install Vista sound driver. You can find it on Toshiba download page - http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com

Satellite L500-21T - Stop error code when installing Windows 7

Hello
I bought a notebook Satellite L500-21T from saudi arabia.
I lost the hd recovery during trying fix windows 7 installation. If I try to install windows 7 I get stop code 0x0000009c error. If I turn sata to compitibality from AHCI Windows xp sp2 not sp3 installed but most drivers like display and wlan not installed. Trying to update BIOS give that is not suitable for that the phoenix version of bios 1.5
I changed HD and RAM but the same problem. It may the BIOS?
plz help me

Hi buddy,
Do you install Windows 7 from Toshiba recovery disk or normal Microsoft disk?
Usually if you install Windows 7 from recovery disk, everything should work well because its pretested image from Toshiba and you get back out of box settings (factory settings).
If not it seems to be a hardware malfunction
By the way: Try to load the default settings in BIOS. You can do this if you press F9 key in BIOS.

Satellite L500-1DT: HDD Recovery of Win 7 is stuck in endless reboot loop

This is a detailed bug report so please bear with me.
If you can help, or can confirm you've had the same happen to you, I'll be grateful.
I've owned several Toshiba laptops before and I even used to work for Toshiba so rest assured I like the machine. But I've got a problem with its recovery software. I just bought a laptop, Satellite L500-1DT with Windows 7 64 bit, on behalf of a non-techie who lives elsewhere. Since I know from experience that I will occasionally have to field panic calls along the lines of "it's become too slow", "how do I get rid of the accumulated junk", "maybe it's got a virus" and so on, the first thing I checked was the automatic recovery, i.e. how to bring the HD back to "as new" state.
So I booted into the machine, answered the questions until I got into the OS proper, and then ran the "make a recovery DVD" program. Double layer DVD verified ok. With the freshly made DVD, I swapped the supplied HD for a spare I had (much smaller: only 40 GB instead of 320) and booted the rescue DVD hoping that it would remake me a clean system on the blank drive.
It did repartition the drive according to its scheme, with more or less half the space for Windows and the other half for Data including the recovery files. It did install the system in the Windows partition. It then rebooted into the installed Windows 7 to finalize the installation. There, trouble began: an endless loop of reboots for hours until I stopped it.
Loop:
* reboot
* black screen with bright 4-colour windows logo "starting windows"
* black screen with light blade and "setup is preparing your computer for first use"
* blue "welcome" white screen with "please wait" and horizontal bar with green blob, saying "Finishing the installation may take several minutes. Please dont interrupt or shutdown the computer!"
* blue screen saying it's shutting down
Repeat the above forever.
I have seen it reboot way over 10 times over the course of several hours. And every time it pretends it's the first time it does that. Surely that's not normal!
I tried stopping it with ctrl-alt-del and task manager but the white screen would go on top of even the task manager, making it hard to kill any processes or even inspect what they were. I stopped it by holding down the power button until it switched off. Then when it rebooted it said if I wanted safe mode. I tried that. It went into the routine above and at some point it said it couldn't proceed with the installation if it was in safe mode. So it rebooted into regular mode and then... finished! It finally broke out of the endless loop!
Then it asked me all the usual questions about language, registration etc, as it had done the first time I had turned it on. This seemed good. I finally got back into a newly installed OS and all seemed fine, except I later discovered that some programs that were there before were not installed.
With bravery bordering stupidity (*) I even re-did the procedure on the supplied hard disk instead of my spare one: first I nuked the windows partition, then I did rescue from the HD (with F8), not with the DVD I had made. Result: similar rigmarole, with endless reboots.
After I stopped it, it sort-of-worked, as above, but now some other programs were missing, notably the Toshiba DVD player.
(*) motivated by: better try this now, with the computer here and all my tools and other computers ready at hand, than when the computer is away at its owner's home and that's the only thing left to try with me at the other end of a phone line. Been there before.
Now, that specific one (DVD player) I could download from the support page and it installed fine; but what else might be missing or not working that I didn't notice? Clearly the restore process isn't working as it should.
Am I the first or only one to whom this happens? Am I doing anything wrong? Is there anything else I should try?
I need to make sure this restore procedure works flawlessly while I still have the computer in my hands. If it doesn't, there's no chance I'm going to be able to do a remote reinstall for my non-techie once I am asked to clean up the laptop over the phone a few months from now.
Thanks in advance
[Update: while looking for the right place where I could post this I found that other people are reporting the same problem. It's definitely a bug in the distributed recovery software for W7-64, not an isolated problem of my machine. See for example
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=49421&tstart=0 where user kwarc is describing the same symptoms with a Satellite L505.

I am glad to report some unexpected SUCCESS!
I left the computer at what it was doing when I wrote the previous
post. I came back to it an hour later or so (I had stopped counting
the reboots, though occasionally I'd hear that typical chime from the
other room, saying it was doing one more cycle) and I noticed
something slightly different: the white screen with "finishing the
installation may take several minutes" had a blue blob, not a green
blob, in the progress bar, and the blob was rectangular rather than
rounded. Very odd! Something different had happened, like a change of
theme. And a little while after that, the process really finished and
I got to the white screen that asks about what language etc etc, like
when I first turned on the new computer.
Great!
All I can conclude from this experience:
Even a reinstall that works will DEFINITELY involve many reboots that
seem to be getting nowhere. Apparently, progress is being made, even
though it looks like the process is stuck in a loop of reboots.
It would just be nice if it said something like "Before I finish
restoring, I'm going to have to reboot 26 times, please hang on; now
doing cycle 8 of 26". (Numbers are made up.) It doesn't, but just
knowing about it is helpful.
Perhaps worth redoing the install once more and making a note of how
long it really takes from beginning to end when it does work.
I still don't know if the process I described in the first post was
really stuck because of some other error or whether it would have
ended eventually. If I wanted to be really sure I could re-restore
everything on that hard disk once more.
I have no idea whether wiping all partitions from the disk before
reinstalling did any good or not: it shouldn't have made a difference
since, as I said, I noticed that the first thing the restore program
did was redo all the partitions itself. On the other hand we have
experimental proof that the restore can work on a HD without any
partitions.
Thanks again PauPau---the most useful thing you said, for me, was the
data point that for you it had worked. That's what made me try again
and leave the computer on indefinitely through the innumerable
reboots, just in case.
I'll repost a definitive answer on how long a successful restore
process should take once I get round to redoing it on the supplied 320
GB HD.

Satellite L500-1ek - setup system always starts with 800x600

I have new Satellite L500-1ek notebook with Windows 7.
Whatever screen resolution I setup system always starts with 800x600. And not only after restart but even when I logout my profile and login again.
More: I use also external monitor. I can have mirror of my laptop screen on the monitor or only display on monitor but whatever I do I cannot have extended screen.
When I try to set it up I'm simply ignored by driver.
So I tried to install newest driver. I downloaded it from Toshiba site but it never installed saying me that my system did not meet minimum requirements.
What to do now?
Marek

Hi Marek,
> I downloaded it from Toshiba site but it never installed saying me that my system did not meet minimum requirements.
As far as I know your notebook is equipped with Intel graphic card and so you are installing the latest display driver from Toshiba website. Is this right?
Well, I have to say that I had the same issue on my Satellite U400 that is also equipped with Intel graphic card. The solution for this problem was pretty easy: I installed the driver via device manager. There select the graphic card, make a right click on it and select Update Driver. In next windows choose the advanced installation where you can choose the driver directory yourself. After the installation make a restart and thats all! :)

Satellite L500 - touchpad & CD-rom are not working anymore

Dear Sir
I have Satellite L500 laptop. I have problem with the touch pad and cd-rom both losses the functionality.
Once I click on the touch pad cursor not moving and it button also not working.
Please give me solution on it.
I have try to setup by default setting loading then also it not working.
Please give me solution on it.
Thanking you
Sandeep.

Best way to test functionality is to install original recovery image again and test hardware with factory settings.
Please use recovery DVD discs, if you have created them, or use HDD recovery option - http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD1303440001R02.htm

Satellite L500: WLan drops out and doesnt work most of the time

hi everyone, i have a toshiba satellite L500 running windows 7. have been using iprimus internet, wirelessly, no problems for a few weeks,before that, was using it via ethernet cable as i didnth ave a wireless modem. my laptop was off charge the other night and went flat, next morning when i woke up and turned it on, it wouldnrt connect to the internet.. after hours and hours of phone calls to iprimus, and numerous winsock resets, ethernet cable testing, and modem resetting, they tell me that the problem is within my laptop...
So i rang toshiba.. and they got me to go into device managers, and then network adapters, and disable, actually uninstall the wireless drivers, then reinstall.. and it worked.. finally... (forgot to add with all the iprimus confusion someone had reset my passowrd and i had to configure that to the laptop..
so anyway, after all these calls, i did a complete restore of the laptop, and wiped everything and reinstalled it all, and therefore reinstalled the modem. this time in modem setup it was telling me the wireless network adapter was unplugged, and would only let me set it up via ethernet..
now earlier today i did have the internet.. but it dropped out randomly.. webpages will go slow, sometimes it will reconnect, other times it wont. now i thougbht i might try and uninstall and reinstall the modem again,s ame error, and this time, cant get on wirelessly at all.
ive googled to see if others ahve had this problem.. and seeing what other people wrote, i went into my battery settings, and checked the WLAN didnt go into sleep mode etc, and ive also checked everythings enabled. ive no idea what to do,, neither iprimus or Toshiba will give me any anwers, both companies are just blaming each other lol
so i
it does appear to be my laptop, as all lights are on modem.. and iprimus keep telling me its not registering with them ( the disconnections) so it must be my wireless. though everytime my laptop dropped out of internet, so would my bfs iphone we were testing, and so did my other laptop which is partially stuffed but could normally still connect to the net.. so thats telling me its a modem problem.. ive no idea what to do.. and cant keep this via ethernet on the bench in this new hosue ive moved into,as with 2 kids under 3, thats just asking for trouble..
anyone have any suggestion??
thanks in advance

wel after many more phone calls to iprimus, i finally found a helpful indian, who ran me through the modem setup AGAIN like everyone else has, this time in its security settings, he got me to change the wireless signal channel from 2 to 9, said that would improve the signal, every other person when explaining the issues i was having, always told me to set it on 2.. so this has improved it dramatically in the day, but at night, particulary around 830pm, it drops out over and over and over...
would this just be a faulty modem, and perhaps buying oen from a harvery norman etc would be better?? or could it just be iprimus as a whole with there wireless coverage? im not in an iprimus area, theyve borrowed the lines of telstra or something.. so im on a crappier plan in this new house, and dont have adsl2 just 1500 speed. would this have anythign to do with the poor reception, or perhaps is there something in my house interfearing, or in my neighbors house? there is a satelite here, but no actual foxtel connected, looks as though it has been before. there is also an alarm here, not in use though.. ive not even seen if it turns on..

Satellite L500-13W - FN Key Stop Working

Hello Everyone
I have a problem, suddenly, without doing anything, my *FN keys stop working*. First the luminosity adjustment still worked without appearing the bar on the top of the screen, but when I reboot the computer not even that works, nothing related with the FN key works.
My biggest problem is that my computer is a Toshiba Satellite L500-13W and *i can only activate Wireless pressing FN+F8*. I can't stay with this problem much more. I already looked in this forum and in other sites but none of the solutions have solved my problem.
I hope you can help me.
Thanks in Advance.
(Sorry for my bad English) :|
Oh I forgot to say, I am using Windows Vista 32 bit

Hi
> I don't understand why so many people have this problem
I cant imagine that many people have this problem. To be honest I have two notebooks, Satellite A300 and Qosmio F50. On both notebooks I installed Windows 7 and after installing VAP and Flash Cards support utility the FN keys worked fine. Also on Vista I never had a problem, all is working fine.
Anyway, I think you have tried everything so the last chance is reinstalling Vista using Toshiba recovery disk. After this the FN keys should work again.
Check this!!!

Satellite L500-164 - Need keyboard change to English or Greek

Hello,
I'm studying in Germany now and I was thinking of buying the Satelite L500-164.
The problem is, in all shops you can only buy it with German keyboard which I totally hate.
Is it possible to change it to an English(or Greek) one?
How much will it cost? How long will it take?
I thought about buying it from Toshiba directly but they don't sell it, so I guess I'm stuck with buying it and immediately sending it to service for keyboard change?
Are there any shops which sell it with English keyboard or can change it at demand?
Thanks a lot

> I thought about buying it from Toshiba directly but they don't sell it, so I guess I'm stuck with buying it and immediately sending it to service for keyboard change?
Well, this will be one solution the other would be buying an Satellite L500 in UK to get an keyboard with English layout.
You could try to order from some online retailers. There are enough online shops which provides Toshiba notebooks

Satellite L500-1XD constantly restarting & displaying blue recovery screen

I bought a Toshiba Satellite L500-1XD laptop from an Argos store in August. Soon after I got it it occasionally restarted itself and displayed the blue recovery screen saying the laptop has recovered from a hardware failure. This has become more frequent recently and it often shuts down, displays blue screen, restarts and does this over and over again.
I have not installed many new programmes on the laptop and have installed all updates. I have removed any programmes I did install with the exception of Microsoft Office.
Another thing that might be related if that when the laptop starts up it says the Toshiba Service Station has stopped working and tries to check for a solution to the problem.
I would any appreciate any advice on how I could perhaps remedy this
Thanks in anticipation

Hi katrina_1,
That means the preinstalled Windows version is still installed, right?!
Well, I think its hard to say why it happens It could be a software or hardware malfunction. Both could be possible.
The most reasons for blue screens are drivers or hardware itself Are all devices installed properly in device manager or do you see yellow exclamation marks?
In your case I would try to reinstall Windows. Maybe its only a software or driver issue
Furthermore if you have installed two RAM modules, test it with one module only. You can also use Memtest86 or another RAM diagnostic tool to test the RAM modules for failures.

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