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How to install Ubuntu 11.10 on the Toshiba L745D/P745D

Paul Weiss — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:32:00 +0000

As you have noticed, installing Ubuntu 11.10 directly on the Toshiba L745D/P745D (A6-3400M) is not possible. There are a few problems that you must first resolve. First of all, the maximum amount of partitions is used – 4. Next, the AMD 6520g video card is not supported by the open source driver. And lastly there are some BIOS bugs that you must work around. Fortunately there is a work around for each problem and below you will find the steps required to get your notebook up and running with Ubuntu.

Partition Preparation

Before proceeding back up all of your data and the Toshiba drivers found in the Start menu under Toshiba.

Freeing up a partition for Ubuntu is not to difficult, and you actually have a quite a few options.

During the first Windows 7 first boot select the option to delete the partition with the unused language.
Wipe the drive entirely and install Ubuntu.
Delete one restore partition (~13 GB).
1. Download the GParted Live CD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
2. Press Tab when the Live CD boots up, add the following at the end: radeon.modeset=0
Use CloneZilla to back up your Windows partition, wipe your drive (your can use GParted), restore Windows, and then finally install Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Installation and Graphics Fix

Download Ubuntu 11.04: http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/
Install Ubuntu 11.04, but don’t bother with the updates
Install the proprietary fglrx driver by going into: System —> Administration –> Hardware Drivers
Upgrade Ubuntu using the Update Manager
Reboot
Add the AMD compiz fix repository using Terminal:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:vanvugt/compiz
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reboot
Add the CompizConfig Settings Manager using Terminal:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Launch the CompizConfig Settings Manager from the Dash
Click on the Composite icon
Uncheck Detect Refresh Rate
Set the Refresh Rate to 60
Close the window

Ubuntu 11.10 should be installed and now working properly.

Kernel Enhancement

The AMD A6-3400M is a relatively new APU that is not fully optimized under the 3.0.0 kernel. I discovered that updating to the 3.1.0 kernel produced a significant performance improvement. You can download the latest kernel snapshot here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/

Internal Microphone

The internal microphone will not work if you have Fast Boot enabled in the BIOS. If you install Ubuntu with Fast Boot enabled, you will have to reinstall it with Normal Boot enabled to get your microphone working. This is a BIOS bug, and Windows users will also experience the same problem.

Wireless Not Working After Resuming From Suspend

It seems that there is another BIOS bug relating to the LAN adapter where there is a conflict between the Atheros LAN adapter and the Realtek wireless adapter. This conflict doesn’t allow you to reconnect after you resume from suspend. To get around this bug disable the LAN adapter in the BIOS.

Issues

As of now there is only one remaining issue that needs to be fixed:

the wireless and brightness hotkeys are not working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/735756

This really isn’t an issue, as everything can be adjusted within Ubuntu.

Nowa Klasyfikacja FIGO z perspektywy EBM

Paul Weiss — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:47:48 +0000

Ta prezentacja jest wyłącznie dla ginekologów. Tematy opisane obejmują raka macicy i szyjki macicy.

Podsumowanie

nowy algorytm dla raka szyjki macicy z ESGO 2011
najnowsze informacje z UpToDate

Sciągnij prezentacje: FIGO

ICD – Trzeba Tego Więcej

Paul Weiss — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:15:50 +0000

Piętnastominutowa prezentacja o nowych wskazaniach 2009 ICD w kontekście internistycznym.

Podsumowanie

ICD przedłużają życie
Opłaca się
Prawie każdy pacjent NYHA II/III zasługuje na ocenę
Trzeba brać pod uwagę stan psychiczny pacjenta przed i po implantacji

Sciągnij prezentacje: ICD

A day in Gdańsk

Paul Weiss — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:34:53 +0000

Ryan Air is the best thing that has ever happened to people who love to travel thanks to the insanely priced tickets. A common complaint about the airline is that it rarely lands in major airports due to the prohibitive airport taxes that eliminate its’ value. I for one see this as something positive, as it gives you an excuse to visit another city/region. This time around my journey from Warsaw lead me to Gdańsk – thanks to Ryan Air.

Neptune's fountain

Old town

One of the many nice side streets

City Hall

The main promenade

The main promenade from the other side

Waterfront

Waterfront

Waterfront

Another nice side street

Solidarity monument

St Mary's church

The main train station

A day in Warsaw

Paul Weiss — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:27:43 +0000

I returned to Poland for one week to visit my family in Warsaw. I took the opportunity to take some pictures of all the places I use to frequent when I was studying there. The city has changed quite a bit during a very short time, and so have its’ people. I took my trusty XSi along with me on that day, but more and more I regret not getting the Canon 18-200 mm lens – probably the best lens for urban hiking.

Old town square

Papal cross with the tomb of the unknown soldier in the background

Easter tradition of visiting churches, hence the line-up

Krakowskie Przedmiescie

The Palace Of Culture - you either love it or hate it

ul. Nowy Świat

Chopin Museum - underneath you could once find Morgan's Pub

Warsaw University

Copernicus

Palace Square

A nice little corner in the old town

The old town square

The Warsaw uprising monument

Part of the old town

The Great Theater - the world's largest

Downtown

Warsaw commemorates its’ fallen leaders

Paul Weiss — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:46:45 +0000

By chance I was visiting my family in Warsaw when I heard of the plane crash that had occurred in Smolensk with Poland’s most influential leaders on it. Here are the pictures that I took of the mourning that took place in Warsaw on the same day of the tragedy.

A Day In London

Paul Weiss — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:17:20 +0000

I had one day to spend in London when waiting for my next flight. The city is quite enormous, so a day’s worth of urban hiking allowed me to only see a fraction of this gargantuan city. My trek led me from Victoria Station to Blackfriar’s Bridge and back. Along the way I did visit some sites, including Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus. This was my first attempt at photography with a ND4 filter. I was quite happy with the results, and I did avoid sky highlights. As you can see in my first picture, all of the blue in the sky did turn out correctly. Once again, I used my 18-55 and 70-200 lens with my XSi.

A Day In Vancouver

Paul Weiss — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:03:51 +0000

These photos were taken in late January, 2010 with my XSi. I used my 18-55 and 70-200 lens during this day. Some of my pictures have severe highlights in the sky. I learned that this anomaly can be rectified with a ND filter. In the span of about 8 hours I hiked through most of the interesting areas in Vancouver, and took Sky Train a few times. After my urban exploration I got a feel for the city, but I did not really experience any of Vancouver’s attractions. I had to unfortunately leave on the same day of my arrival, but I shall return.

Vancouver Airport

Vancouver Exhibition Center

Float Plane Landing In The Harbour

Vancouver Harbour

Helicopter Landing

Stanley Park

Vancouver Harbour

Vancouver China Town

Vancouver Downtown

A Day At The Southland Dog Park

Paul Weiss — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:16:37 +0000

A few pictures taken a the Southland Dog Park in Calgary with my Rebel XSi. Some of the pictures were taken with a polarizing filter. I mainly used my 18-55 mm lens and my 55-250 mm lens. After reviewing the photos from this day I returned my 55-250 mm lens and exchanged it for the 70-200 L lens – I have no regrets.

The Rogers HTC Magic Ion HoFo Community ROM

Paul Weiss — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:33:39 +0000

I’ve just made a new HoFo Ion ROM, which is based on nk02‘s modification’s. The Ion ROM is a special ROM that was given to developers by Google – it is the fastest Android ROM out there now. The best part about this ROM for Rogers users is that there is no time stamp issue in this ROM. Other than the speed, don’t expect anything special. One thing that you will notice is that you will not have an “H” in your status bar when using 3G HSPA data, but your Magic is in fact transferring data at HSPA speeds.

Here are some of the changes that I’ve made to nk02′s lite version:

- modified the boot.img for the Rogers HTC Magic
- replaced the WLAN driver to make the WiFi functional
- added all of the Hero ringtones
- added Exchange support
- added Quick Office
- added PDF viewer
- overclocked to 528 MHz (max)
- removed G1 boot logo, and replaced it with the HTC Magic logo
- removed unnecessary files from ROM
- fixed Haykuro’s keyboard (it wasn’t working)
- removed SuperUser Whitelist, you still have SuperUser functionality

Please keep in mind that you DO have to wipe if you are coming from a different ROM.

Update 1.08

- updated to the latest TigerTael kernel, now with BFS
- updated WLAN driver
- updated dalvikvm to the 2.1 JAC version
- updated MarketEnabler to version 3.0.2
- updated Loccy’s Better Browser to version 1.4.2
- you will get a Google Gears error the first time you open your Browser due to the kernel update one time
- I will not be providing updates to the themed versions any more

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/132951649/94e01a56/hofoion108.html

Update 1.07

- fixed 3G connection error that was made by a previous build.prop modification, please let me know if you still experience any problems

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/127659406/c9c7a3ae/hofoion107.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.06

- reverted back to gboddina’s kernel
- reverted back to gboddina’s WLAN driver
- fixed build.prop data settings

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/127381712/b81e9542/hofoion106.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.05

- updated to the Amon_RA kernel, as it has seem to fix all of the bugs in gboddina’s ROM
- updated to Amon_RA’s wlan.ko
- set minimum CPU speed to 128 MHz, battery life is now improved
- imported build.prop settings from Amon_RA’s ROM, they should increase data transfer speeds

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/127264303/92b9a1bf/hofoion105.html (rename to update.zip)

Hero theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/127272928/22c1e90f/hofoion105hero.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.04

- updated wireless driver to Donut version (thanks to TigerTael et al)
- updated kernel to allow tethering (thanks to TigerTael & gboddina)
- added android-wifi-tether, allows Bluetooth and WLAN tethering
- removed some unnecessary services from init.rc

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/126729633/4e0fd48d/hofoion104.html (rename to update.zip)

Hero theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/126894318/99ccf675/hofoion104hero.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.03

- updated dalvikvm from Donut (backported by cyanogen)
- updated power widget icons (backported by cyanogen)
- both keyboards are now inlcuded: HTC & Google (long press in text entry field to get Input Method option)
- version ID is now in the menu: Settings –> About phone –> Mod version

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/123029602/5d18a8c7/hofoion103.html (rename to update.zip)

Hero theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/123030864/a8d7e144/hofoion103hero.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.02

- added HSDPA icon
- replaced radio file with the Rogers one
- you don’t need to enter the Rogers APN settings any more
- updated Google Maps to 3.1.2
- added Donut power widget (ported by cyanogen)
- added MarketEnabler

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/121872259/d499b6e3/hofoion102.html (rename to update.zip)

Hero theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/122071091/ba7d92ad/hofoion102hero.html (rename to update.zip)

Google Ion keyboard version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/122108176/bf2c0088/hofoion102g.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Update 1.01

- fixed issue with PDF viewer

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/119360404/931c1ad5/hofoion101.html (rename to update.zip)

Google Ion keyboard version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/119756115/291bef3/hofoion101g.html (rename to update.zip)

Echo theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/119777338/8fee40a7/hofoion101ecco.html (rename to update.zip)

Hero theme version download: http://www.4shared.com/file/119774483/ec32f98f/hofoion101hero.html (rename to update.zip)

You don’t have to wipe, all of your settings will remain after the update.

Original Version

Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/118421922/b6dfb498/HoFoIon.html (rename to update.zip)

You can also follow this ROM over at Howard Forums: http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1550827