[KLUG Hardware] Toshiba 1135-S155 Was "HP ze4220"

[Adam Williams]

> >>>I just arrived home with a 1135-S155, it is installing RH9 now.  No
> >>>problems so far.
> >>Do you still like it?  
> >Yes, very much so.
> Have you tried it with the KLUG projector?  Works OK?
> I wanted to try my wide-aspect display on it last night, but forgot. 
> >>Have you found anything funky?  
> >X has crashed once,  it restarted, the machine did not hang.
> That's the only thing that has me concerned.  That can become really
> annoying if it happens very often.

I use it all day as my primary workstation, so I don't think once is too
bad.  It happened right after logging in and launching IBM Server Studio
JE (a *MAMMOTH* Java application).  One of the bugs filed against the
1.4.1 beta of the jvm for Linux is that it can crash X on certain
glibcs.  So I'm not certain I even blame the laptop.

> > PCMCIA wireless (using it now) has worked flawlessly as has my USB cell
> > phone.
> Have you tried a 32 bit (cardbus) card?  They didn't work in my Sony,
> nor do they work in my new Dell.  (The Orinoco is a 16 bit card)

Nope, don't have any of those.

> > Playing DVD's with oogle works well, with only the occassion clip due
> > again to non-100% DMA support
> What happens if you set DMA on hda?  Does it trash your filesystem, 
> or just report some error?

A bug prevents you from even enabling DMA via the hdparm option on this
chipset.  Again, this may be the kernel bug, or the laptop,  only time
will tell.