Problems with a toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:54:25PM +0200, Gabriel Maldonado wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just installed Fedora Core 1 on my laptop,  that is a toshiba 
> Satellite Pro 4200 with 128 MB of memory, but I have serious problems. 
> When I move the mouse (an USB compatible mouse with 3 keys and wheel) x 
> server often crashes. Actually it doesnt crashes completely, but slow 
> down the mouse pointer by a huge factor, and the graphic interface is 
> freezed (no response to mouse or keyboard).

I take it this is an external rodent. If so, what happens if you don't
use the external rodent at all and use the built-in
touchpad/eraser/whatever? X may respond differently to different
rodents.

> 
> I suspect that the problem is the video chip (a Savage/IX with 8 MB 
> video ram) when X-Windows graphics interacts with the mouse pointer, 
> since often, when moving it, the arrow leaves spurious pixels on the 
> screen when the crash occurs.


Have you tried Toshiba's list for Linux users?
List-Id: tlinux-users.linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp
List-Help: <mailto:tlinux-users-ctl at linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp?body=help>



> 
> Since I'm a complete Linux beginner, I ask you what do I have to do.
> I don't even know how to start Fedora without starting X-Windows.

To boot without X, in grub (the boot loader), add 'init 3' to the
arguments to the kernel. See the grub on-screen directions for how to
do this. To make it permanent, edit /etc/inittab. See the notes above
this line:

id:5:initdefault:

You will probably change it to read:

id:3:initdefault:

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