On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:14:24 +0100, marc ebelin staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> I've just installed ubuntu on my toshiba S5200

Is this a Satellite 5200, or a Satellite 5200-801? (Or do both
designations refer to the same model? Details usually count.)

> I'd like to know if I can use features as the remote, the Fn+F5 to
> switch the display device, the memory card reader, or the clock?

http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba.html and looking up the 5200 gives a few
pages, at least one of which is 404ing right now.
http://godlewski.info/toshiba/index.html , maybe? It would help with a
few things like ACPI and the function keys.

None of the pages mentioned a remote of any type; can you describe this
more fully? Pressing a key combination to switch the display device is
common, but getting that working properly usually requires a change to
xorg.conf . This laptop probably has an nVidia video chip, so the thing
to do is to read Appendix I of the evil binary-only nVidia kernel
module's README. That doesn't sound encouraging for version 7676 of the
evil kernel module, so try a more recent version if you can.

> Moreover, the lightness at the start up is very dark and I change it
> manually. Is it possible to start with a luminous screen?

Maybe. I dunno; the pages out there don't have as much info as you'd
like (though at least one of them's en français.) Ah well. HTH anyway,

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