Toshiba Sattelite P850-131, several issues. SOME FIXED

Haikarainen · 2012-09-04 18:08:06

I installed Arch on my laptop tonight, most of the stuff have gone smoothly but there has came up some issues;

1. Synaptics touchpad does not work, at all.

~~2. Power management daemon will not start.~~ FIXED. Didnt start dbus daemon, got a warning on login, shouldve taken notice.

~~3. No audio.~~ FIXED. Was muted, but had no volume control to unmute it. Installed alsa-utils, unmuted in alsamixer. Why is there no volume control default in KDE, and where can I find a good one? EDIT2: installed kmix from kdemultimedia-kmix.

The laptop is a Toshiba Sattelite P850-131

My lspci, if it says anything:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)

Lets start with problem 1, the touchpad not working. It seems to be recognized, no strange errors or something, it just doesnt react to anything.

/etc/Xorg/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

Some commands:

$ dmesg | grep synaptics
[    9.581885] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 8.1, id: 0x1e2b1, caps: 0xd00123/0x840300/0x126c00

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep synaptics
[    16.291] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[    16.291] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[    16.298] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    16.298] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[    16.299] (II) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: found clickpad property
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5678
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4732
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left double triple
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7
[    16.299] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[    16.300] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[    16.300] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[    16.300] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: AccelFactor is now 0.037
[    16.300] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found

synclient works and gives seemingly OK settings. Any help appreciated!

Next problem, power management daemon wont start! This gives me trouble since I cant see battery info, if AC is plugged in, control backlight etc. Although I can put a value in /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to change it.

In the list of services it says it is on, when I try to kill it and restart it, I get a message: "KDE Power Management System could not be initialized. The backend reported following error: No valid Power Management backend plugins are available. A new installation might solve this problem, Please check your system configuration."
FIXED, read above

Third problem: no audio. This is the problem I have least investigated. I get the corrects devices listed under audio playback in multimedia settings, but it wont play anything when I press the "test" button. FIXED, Read above

Again any help is appreciated. Also please be patient with me, I am a longtime debian + gnome user who recently decided to switch to Arch + KDE.

Cheers!

Last edited by Haikarainen (2012-09-04 20:13:36)

simon.swe · 2012-09-11 14:40:23

does the wifi work?
have you installed all synaptics stuff?

stefanwilkens · 2012-09-13 23:51:08

please re-do this:

$ dmesg | grep Synaptics

note the capital S

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#1 2012-09-04 18:08:06

Toshiba Sattelite P850-131, several issues. SOME FIXED

#2 2012-09-11 14:40:23

Re: Toshiba Sattelite P850-131, several issues. SOME FIXED

#3 2012-09-13 23:51:08

Re: Toshiba Sattelite P850-131, several issues. SOME FIXED

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