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1. Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC Hardware Specification

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Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC hardware specification scanned from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M] (rev a1)

02:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)

02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)

02:0d.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 05)

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Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC Devices Status

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2. Fedora Core 4 Installation

Fedora Core 4 supports different method of installation method. This page will cover the personal installation that I personally encounters. using many various different ways just to test how hard it will be to install FC4 without USB CDROM.

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2.1. Installation Method

The Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC, doesn't come with any CDROM attached with it. So you will need to purchase the CD-ROM if you want to have a guaranteed success installing linux on this laptop.

You can choose the following installation methods that are ranked based on its succession rate:

1. USB -CDROM method will involves you to download the iso images and then burn them to cd rom, booting and installing from cdrom

2. Purely From Hard disk

3. SD-Card + USB stick / USB MP4 Player

4. Network Install - boot from PXE

5. Network Install - boot from sdcard + USB Stick

I will cover all the four installation method, but it may not be 100% accurate since I write the method based on my personal installation experiences.

USB - CDROM Installation Method

This is the surest 100% guaranteed to success installation method for installing Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution on your Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC. The only glitch that can make this installation failed is most likely bad iso file from downloading, bad cd burning, bad cd media and bad cdrom.

The recommended install method, you will need to :

1. Download the .iso file from fedora or its mirror server

2. Burn the image file to cdrom (or DVD if you download the dvd image file)

3. Hook-up your USB CDROM / DVD ROM / DVD combo drive to your computer

4. Change the bios setting to enable it to boot from cd-rom

then goes on to the installation process.

Using Hard disk Installation Method

This is the second reliable installation method, it have several combination of installation ways.

Pure Hard disk installation method

By calling pure hard disk installation method means that no other media will help for booting / installation. Everything is done by hard disk. You will need to :

Install Grub for ntfs/dos. You can try grub for dos web page for more information.

Download the Fedora Core 4 iso to windows xp. Update : You will need to save the iso into VFAT partition not NTFS.

Create c:/boot and put the Fedora bootfile to be safe -> get all file.

Modify the xp boot manager to boot Fedora, You will need to add : C:\grldr="Start GRUB" (you can replace c:\grldr to the actual path where grldr is) to c:\boot.ini (to view this file you must enable "view hidden file" in windows explorer

Copy grldr to c:\ or whatever location that you specify in the boot.ini. Remember that grldr and other linux file is not safe to have them compressed in ntfs.

Shrink the ntfs using partition manager - only applies if you have access for windows based NTFS resizing tools (such as partiion magic). Warning: Defrag and backup your harddisk before messing with any NTFS resizing software, fails to do so may messed up or completely destroys your partition and data.

Reboot to fedora using xp boot manager / then choose grub and continue the normal installation method

Hard disk installation method combine with sd card + USB flash disk

This method is not really recommended at all because its not very reliable and its very complicated. As from my experience, I used this method because my windows partition is messed up which cannot be booted and I have no access to any USB CDROM.

To use this method you will need :

1. SD card with capacity of minimum 2 MB, You can only have 1.44 mb worth of data which is usually just the floppy boot image, the rest of the space cannot be read under linux.

2. USB flash disk with minimum capacity of 256 mb, but to ease you (BELIEVE ME) 4 GB is recommended.

The installation process:

1. You will need put the debian floppy image to the sdcard and change the file name into $tosfd000.vfd, You will need working computer to do this!

2. Next is to put the debian root image to the USB Stick

3. Put the debian base iso to the USB Stick

4. Extract the Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz and initrd from FC4 iso Disc 1 If your USB Stick capacity is big enough, put also all the Fedora Core 4 Iso to the USB Stick, also its generally a good idea to put lynx, ftp and several other scripts for help

5. Assuming everything is ready, reboot the computer and enable the sdcard boot in the bios

6. The laptop shold boot from sdcard, then it will ask for the root disk, if it cannot find the USB Stick (root image) then you need to unplug the stick and plug it again.

7. Assuming you successfully boot the debian linux, Proceed with the debian installation.

8. During the debian installation, you will need to resize the ntfs partition, if your USB Stick cannot hold all 4 Disc or 1 DVD FC4 iso image then you will need to make a dummy partition that will be filed with the FC4 iso later on.

9. DON'T forget to finish the debian installation up to the GRUB installed, otherwise you'll ended up with non-bootable linux.

10. Reboot the computer into the debian minimal system.

11. Assuming you are in the debian minimal system, Move the vmlinuz and initrd to /boot, modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst to add your Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz and initrd FIXME! provide more detailed information.

12. Now you if you have 4 gb USB stick, test if the Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz can identifies the stick well by rebooting the laptop and during grub menu you choose the new added menu that points to the Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz (NOT THE DEBIAN). If you can access the USB stick then you are in luck, just proceed with the Fedora Core 4 Installation as usual and choose the install from harddisk method, then Specifies where the USB Stick is mounted. FIXME! Describe in detailed the full path

13, Well, If your USB stick cannot hold all the Fedora Core 4 Image, You will need to make 1 dummy partition to hold the iso image. Then somehow copy the iso image to that partition, You can either download it there, using local ftp to get it there or if your USB stick can hold at least one disc -> manually copy one disc by one disc to the partition.

If the installation program can run smoothly, then you are done.

Network Install - boot from PXE

This installation method will requires you to have a working linux computer and its configured to handle booting from PXE. This page will not cover this installation method yet, When I tried to use this method by connecting to a ubuntu running NEC laptop, the Toshiba Portege M200 can connect to server but failed to boot.

Network Install - boot from SD Card + USB Flash Disk

This method will involves :

1. SD card with capacity of minimum 2 MB, You can only have 1.44 mb worth of data which is usually just the floppy boot image, the rest of the space cannot be read under linux.

2. USB flash disk with minimum capacity of 256 mb.

3. Working Network Connection : Wired Network, Working http proxy, in summary, A REALLY WORKED NETWORK CONNECTION. Warning : Like my case, hotel broadband connection usually WILL remember only ONE mac address and eventhough using the correct MAC address, you will need to know the http proxy setting, so don't be fooled with it, You must make sure that you know you can connect to internet under FC4 installation, not just under XP

The installation process:

1. You will need put the debian floppy image to the sdcard and change the file name into $tosfd000.vfd, You will need working computer to do this!

2. Next is to put the debian root image to the USB Stick

3. Put the debian base iso to the USB Stick

4. Extract the Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz and iniitrd from FC4 iso Disc 1 (FIXME! provide the file for download) If your USB Stick capacity is big enough, put also all the Fedora Core 4 Iso to the USB Stick, also its generally a good idea to put lynx, ftp and several other scripts for help FIXME! provide the file for download

5. Assuming everything is ready, reboot the computer and enable the sdcard boot in the bios

6. The laptop shold boot from sdcard, then it will ask for the root disk, if it cannot find the USB Stick (root image) then you need to unplug the stick and plug it again.

7. Assuming you successfully boot the debian linux, Proceed with the debian installation.

8. During the debian installation, you will need to resize the ntfs partition, if your USB Stick cannot hold all 4 Disc or 1 DVD FC4 iso image then you will need to make a dummy partition that will be filed with the FC4 iso later on.

9. DON'T forget to finish the debian installation up to the GRUB installed, otherwise you'll ended up with non-bootable linux.

10. Reboot the computer into the debian minimal system.

11. Assuming you are in the debian minimal system, Move the vmlinuz and initrd to /boot, modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst to add your Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz and initrd FIXME! provide more detailed information.

12. Reboot the computer, choose the modified / added grub entry that point to Fedora Core 4 vmlinuz and initrd, during the installation process, choose the Internet / network installation method. You will need to have full internet address for the Fedora Core 4 mirror location.

If the installation program can run smoothly, then you are done.

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2.2. Disk Partition

You will need to Resize your partition if you still need to keep Microsoft Windows XP, basically you will need to use disk partition software such as Partition Magic. You will need to free the space needed for the Fedora Core installation. You will need at least 10 Gigabyte for Linux.

If you keep the existing Microsoft Windows XP and install new Fedora Core system, you will have to configure the Grub (Default FC 4 Boot loader) or Lilo to make you able to boot either system during boot. If you don't need to use any of the Microsoft Windows XP partition, then you can proceed to load the Fedora Core CD image into your USB CDROM and start the installation process.

Its generally a good idea to make a seperate /home partition when you partitioned the linux partion, its can be a logical volume manager partition or normal partition, This will save your personal files if by any chances you need to reinstall the Fedora Core 4 system.

Recommended Partitions scheme :

Microsoft Windows XP -> 1st partition primary / hda1 / hd(0,0) -> 6 GB -> NTFS not compressed / VFAT

Storage area -> 2nd partition primary / hda2 / hd(0,1) -> 37 GB -> NTFS (You will need the NTFS R/W kernel module) / VFAT (permission problems, only useful for root) -> Mount as /home/storage for exchanging data and storage

Boot -> 3rd partition / hda3 primary / hd(0,2) -> 100 mb -> vfat / ext2 -> mount /boot

Swap partition -> 4th partition extended / hda4 / hd(0,3) -> total memory x 2 -> swap partition (swapon) -> I dont use them because I got 1 GB memory

Linux Root -> 5th partition primary / hda5 / hd(0,4) -> min 6 GB -> ext3 -> mount /

Linux Home -> 6th partition extended / hda6 / hd(0,5) -> 10 GB -> ext3 -> mount /home -> not really needed if you wish to use Storage instead

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2.3. Package Selection

You can check http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.html for more detailed information regarding installation method and packages.

Some of the packages recommended :

1. KDE library for KPPP and KDE-Bluetooth and Wlassistant

2. KPPP -> actually you can decided to skip this and choose over gnome-ppp if you want your system to be clean from KDE.

3. KDE Bluetooth -> you can change to gnome-bluetooth but its far less superior than KDE Bluetooth.

4. Yum -> Recommended

5. Joe or Nano -> Recommended

6. Samba -> Recommended

7. Yumex / Gnome Yum

Its better to install minimal system, then install the later on needed packages later using yum. this will allows you to get the most recent updates on certain packages.

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3. Hardware Configuration

This section is provided for configuring Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC hardware under Fedora Core 4. Some of the hardware configuration is generic enough for other linux distribution and other Toshiba models.

Some of the hardware that are generic enough :

Modem : Other Toshiba laptop / other brand laptop / other linux distribution can use the same way and driver as long as the modem kernel module is the same snd_intel8x0m kernel modules thus using ALSA as its driver.

CPU Speed Step : There is a good chance that the configuration is similar to other laptop model and linux distribution.

ALPS touchpad : There is a good chance that the configuration is similar to synaptics and other toshiba laptop models.

PCMCIA : There is a good chance that the configuration is similar to other laptop model.

USB : This device configuration is almost the same with other laptop model and its automatically configured using Fedora Core 4.

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3.1. Modem Configuration

You will need to use the smartlink modem driver. You can choose to download the driver, compile it as module then install it or you can download the slmodemd here and tweak the configuration as following :

Modules needed for modem is :
snd_intel8x0m - ALSA modem modules

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3.2. Sound Configuration

Fedora Core 4 will automatically configure the sound devices using ALSA driver. The only tweak you need to adjust is to open the ALSA mixer and turn on external amplifier option on. If you updated your alsa there is possibility that it will not function anymore. If this happens, you can either revert back to the released version or us OSS as its front end.

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3.3. Wireless devices Configuration

The Intel Wireless 2200, is a part of Intel Centrino Chipset. The kernel module for Intel 2200 is provided by Fedora Core 4 kernel as for the kernel 2.6.14 it will provides the driver version 1.0.0, for better performance you will need to update to 2.6.15 kernel which will provides you the driver version 1.0.8. But you will need to download the firmware to make the module works also note for the driver version 1.0.0 the firmware version is 2.1 and for the driver version 1.0.8 the firmware driver is 2.4.

Kernel Module used for Intel Wireless 2200 :

ipw2200 -intel 2200 wireless card modules

ieee80211 -needed by ipw2100 / ipw2200

ieee80211_crypt -needed by ieee80211

After you have installed the firmware for 2200 then you will need to load the modules and use system-config-network to add your wireless network. For better wireless connection program you can try the wlassistant, you can obtain this by using yum or yumex.

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3.4. Network Interface Card Configuration

The network interface card, Intel etherexpress, is automatically configured and detected under Fedora Core 4. You will need to run the network configuration to set every parameter right.

Kernel Module used for Intel NIC :

e100 – for the cable Ethernet card

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3.5. ACPI Configuration

FC 4 will automatically load Video, toshiba_acpi, button, battery, ac modules. but to enable them all you will need to do some configuration and tweaking.

Hibernation

Check if you have /usr/sbin/hibernate, install the hibernate package if you don't have the program. if you do have it, then you will need to edit the /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf.

Then test your configuration by issuing /usr/sbin/hibernate

Battery Meter and AC Outlet Meter

This doesn't really need any configuration, you can view the status by using gnome battery applets or gnome-power-manager.

Download the gnome power manager rpm now at : http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/packages.html and there is available for fedora core packages specific.

FN-button

You can enable fan, brightness, switch to video out, suspend to ram, mute/unmute sound and other by issuing the fn + ?? key just as before. Download the rpm packages using yum and edit the /etc/fnfx/fnfxd.conf also you will need to edit the services to enable the fnfxd daemon to run every time you boot the machine. You can do this by :

Gnome / GUI -> Desktop -> System Settings -> Services -> Enable fnfxd or edit the /etc/rc.local and add fnfxd &

ACPI intergration

To make the button and lid (closing/opening) functional as before you will need to edit this script or make one if there are not available.

or you can install the laptop_mode from http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/ to have all the acpi script and the tools to power down your harddisk (laptop_mode).

Modules used for acpi :
video
toshiba_acpi
button
battery
ac

Laptop Config "ltpconfig"

A good GUI program for controlling brightness, ACPI and ALPS Glide (Synaptics), this program is totally optional. You can download them at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltpconf

Acpi Script for Auto CPU Frequency Change

If you want Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC to change the cpu frequency automatically when it connected / disconnected from AC outlet, please download acpi script then unpack the script to /usr/local/bin, you will also need to change the /etc/acpi/action/lm_ac_adapter.sh . You will need to add the following line : /usr/local/bin/acpi

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3.6. Video Card Configuration

Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC use Nvidia GEForce FX as its video driver, You can choose either using Nvidia closed source driver which you can download at Nvidia official site or uses the Nvidia open source driver which comes with the Fedora Core 4 distribution.

Both driver working well under Fedora Core 4 with diffrence in performance, the Nvidia closed sources seems to perform well rather than the open sources one.

The only trouble for configuring the Video Card is since this is a tablet pc, you will need to have ability to turn the screen and activates the pen stylus to make the screen a digitizer board. FIXME! describe in detail how to turn the screen

Stylus configuration

You will need to edit the xorg.conf and load the stylus driver FIXME! describe in full how to enable the stylus

You will need to issue the command setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x338 autoconfig in the rc.local which will load it everytime you boot the computer.

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3.7. USB Configuration

FC 4 will load the usb modules automatically and it will recognizes the usb devices plugged in automatically.

modules used :
uhci_hcd
ehci_hcd

USB-bluetooth dongle

I bought generic Bluetooth dongle for connecting my nokia phones to the laptop. I am using kdebluetooth-1.0.0-3.beta.1.fc4.kde.i386.rpm. When you choose the workgroup install then you will need some libraries for the software such as kdelibs-3.4.2-1.2.fc4.kde.i386.rpm as the dependencies.
I can access the nokia for sending files, receiving files and as modem to connect to internet. please read this enlightening pages for setting Bluetooth.
Modules used :
bluetooth
rfcomm
l2cap
hci_usb

USB CDROM

It works without any tweaking or configuration needed if running in graphical mode. if you need the usb cdrom in the text mode then you will need to issue mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /directory-you-wish-to-mount-into

Modules used:
usb-storage

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3.8. PCMCIA Configuration

FC 4 seems to load the modules for PCMCIA automatically but since I don’t have pcmcia card to try then I don't really know the results.

Update: Tried the PCMCIA slot by using Asus wireless card, its working 100 %

Modules used:
pcmcia_core
yenta_socket
rsrc_nonstatic

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3.9. SD card reader Configuration

It will not work, since Toshiba doesn't release information regarding the devices, so there will be no driver for this.

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3.10. ALPS touchpad Configuration

Works out of the box. You don't need to configure them. There is a good nice GUI software for setting the parameter of the ALPS, you can try http://gsynaptics.sourceforge.jp/ or ltpconf here.

To have the configuration program works, you will need to get the synaptics driver for xorg, at http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ and compile the source, you will need the xorg-x11-devel package (if you recompile the xorg using fc4 source rpm, then you should have this in your computer). After successful compilation and installation, you will need to put Option "SHMConfig" "true" in you xorg.conf file under your synaptics driver. You can download my xorg.conf file here.

You can also download the binary driver for synaptics for xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.build by me, but I cannot guarantee anything or will it work on your system. Use it at your own risk.

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3.11. Temperature Sensor Configuration

Basically you just run sensors-detect if you installed the laptop-mode. This utilities will detect the right module that match your laptop sensor chipset. I don’t have any idea if other variant of Toshiba M200 uses the same chipset as mine but anyway these are my chipsets modules :

i2c_dev
eeprom
lm90
hwmon

This will get the sensor to work, for nice gui, use gnome sensor applet.

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3.12. CPU Speedstep Configuration

You will need to go into your BIOS setup and turn on if the CPU frequency scaling option if necessary. Then you will need to load these modules:

modprobe speedstep-centrino
modprobe cpufreq-ondemand
modprobe cpufreq-conservative
modprobe cpufreq-powersave

Assuming you installed the cpufreq-utils packages then the cpufreq should be working properly. You can also use nice GUI to control this feature using the Gnome cpufreq applet.

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4. Tuning Fedora Core 4

Fedora Core 4 is a very good and stable linux distribution, but like other linux distribution there are always several things that need to be tuned and tweak.

For Fedora Core 4, you will need to tune mostly in its multimedia program. Since Fedora Core 4 multimedia program doesn't include capabilities to play MP3, AVI, WMA and other useful multimedia format.

4.1. Program updater & Repository

If yum that you wish to use, then you can use gnome-yum or yumex for nice graphical interface. Please be caution not to use development and updates testing level of rpm since it will make your system less stable. It will be also very hard to revert back to updates releases level of rpm due to dependencies problem.

You can add more reps for more rpm choice such as from :

Fresh RPM

DAG RPM

Livna RPM

Dries RPM

ATRPMS RPM

RPMforge RPM

Newrpms RPM

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4.2. Software

This section is for various software that are needed for better usage of the Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC under Fedora Core 4. For general software essential to Fedora Core 4, please refer to the software page

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4.2.1. Tabatha

This is essential for tablet pc FIXME! need more detailed informations

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4.2.2. Grandr

Applet for quick changing the tablet resolution FIXME! need more detailed informations

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4.2.3. Gournal

Similar to Microsoft One Note. A very useful program with tons of dependancies FIXME! need more detailed informations. Check http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/ for downloading and information.

Some of the dependencies needed :

perl-gtk2-gladexml

perl-Gnome2-canvas

perl-Gnome2-print

perl-XML-Mini

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