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Whew! Sorry, this one took a little longer than expected (plus the YuyuYoumu stuff on which I was working got stalled too… not that anyone cares); it is because my laptop kinda, well… broke, ha ha ha!
Scanning: Shijima
TL: me
Editing: Shijima, me (Huge thanks to Shijima for cleaning this one! Given the circumstances, it was a real lifesaver.)
Check: Shijima
I must admit, I couldn’t possibly sympathise more with Yae. Kind of reminds me of my own school days… *shiver* If something doesn’t look as good as you or me would expect it to look, this is because I was forced to switch to my dad’s PC – with its 4:3 CRT monitor and an utterly terrible keyboard… For now I got things in a more or less working state; I was planning another release of Hanjuku for the next week, but then remembered the next ViVid is probably gonna turn up soon, and I’d like to get some YuyuMyon done at last… so, Hanjuku 13 might have to wait another ten days or so. -_-
Actually setting up GNU/Linux on dad’s old machine was quite a task, mostly because of it lacking free space on hard drives and my dad not being here to possibly do something about it for another month… before I realised, half of the week was gone. @_@
(Of course I could just send my dad an e-mail and wait patiently for the reply, but… dunno about you, but sitting idle and waiting isn’t really my style, especially when there is work to be done!)
Then I remembered how I used to play around with installing Debian on removable media; the Sidux live CD came to play. Dusted off my shockproof 8GB Pretec, format to ext2, then a quick debootstrap --arch=i386 squeeze /mnt/winterdeb; chroot, applied a few pendrive-specific tweaks from this fine tutorial (didn’t bother with the encryption though; it’s not like I store any top-secret data ^-^;), installed the 2.6.30-1-686 kernel, Xorg, and some extra utils: lynx, nano, less, most – should I ever need to get stuff done in the OH-NOES command line!
All well so far, except… oh look, my dad’s PC doesn’t support booting from USB, and the floppy drive doesn’t seem to work too well either. But we all know that Linux goes anywhere, so with the help of this page I was able to make a custom boot CD for my flash disk, with the 2.6.30 kernel and required USB drivers.
I had to modify a couple things though… apart from grabbing my desired kernel from the Sidux repos, if you take a look at that tutorial’s menu.lst, you’ll notice it is rather ugly; that’s because it is for Ubuntu rather than Debian – following the path of least resistance, I simply put the below lines in mine:
default 0
timeout 15
title=Debian (USB)
root (cd)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 root=LABEL=WINTERDEB ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686
Where WINTERDEB is the label of my pendrive. Note that this isn’t a very clean way, as it runs the kernel from the CD rather than the root disk itself, but… oh well. On the other hand, now I can use this CD to boot any media with the same label, anywhere. ^-^
All right; connect the pendrive, boot up the cd, and… “fsck died” – oops! After several minutes of panic (it was kinda my last blank CD, and all the stores were already closed…), I realised, the silly me, that while moving some config files over from my laptop, I also dumbly copied the /etc/fstab. -_- Back to a Sidux session… again, in order not to divagate too much, I simply made it read just /dev/disk/by-label/WINTERDEB / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0; another boot, and – yay!
Hmm… 29% memory usage with Firefox and an image in GIMP opened – not too shabby, I guess. For the GUI, I settled on a combo of Openbox, Idesk for desktop plus icons, lxpanel (due to its neat start menu), and XFCE’s Thunar for file management; while Openbox is still kinda in beta stage and the seek/load times are terrible at times (USB 1.0…), the whole thing is running quite well in my opinion! At least better than WinXP, which my dad for some reason chose to install on this 600MHz/600MB RAM machine…
…Uh-huh, another insanely excessive rant. Anyways, I guess it’s another proof that GNU/Linux not only runs anywhere, but also keeps bringing you people the releases. :3
The thing about Laptop AC Adapters/Chargers is that with Power Management working correctly, they can fast charge a battery. If it isn’t, they can still slow or “trickle” charge a battery. By design, a low battery has low internal resistance, and a charged battery has high internal resistance. In essence, a fully charged battery allows the current from the adapter to go directly to running the laptop. If you’ve ever seen your laptop running slow when the battery was low, while using the adapter, that’s because it’s trying to charge the battery quickly, while powering the laptop. If the adapter is weak, it might only have enough power to recharge the battery.
I can’t say it isn’t the firmware, but the fact that the battery charges suggests that the BIOS is functioning properly; especially if the laptop runs fine off the battery. If there’s a problem in the BIOS, it should, for the most part, show up under battery and AC power. If the BIOS is mistakenly detecting too much power coming from the adapter, or a short in the adapter causing too much power, it might allow the battery to charge, since that is regulated and monitored, but not let the laptop turn on to avoid damage. There’s also the chance that the original factory installation came with Intel’s EFI/UEFI, Extensible Firmware Interface, installed on the hard drive. If you’re unfamiliar with it, just think of it as a larger BIOS and settings stored on a hidden area of the hard drive to enhance, speed up and improve, boot time and system performance. If you wiped the drive before installing Linux, and the BIOS requires this information, it could, possibly, stop a computer from booting fully.
The trouble with suspecting the firmware, BIOS or UEFI, is that you, if it was indeed your post, noticed intermittent problems earlier during startup. Intermittent lights, drives spinning up, and not finishing the booting process would suggest a power supply, RAM, CPU, or possible short in a peripheral device, when dealing with desktops. I’ve seen bad video cards and modems keep a desktop from booting correctly. The fact that your laptop boots fine using the battery is what makes me think it might be either the motherboard or adapter/charger.
Considering how many people seem to be having the same problem, it seems that Toshiba should definitely already know what the cause of the problem is, and if it is in the firmware, may even have steps you might be able to perform yourself to avoid sending it in for repair. If it’s hardware, maybe you can order and have the part shipped directly to your home, and fix it yourself. Since it is weird that the battery is charging, and it runs fine off the battery, contacting Toshiba was the only good suggestion I could come up with at the moment. Hopefully they’ll know what’s going on with your laptop, and once you know, then you can decide what to do next.
Hanjuku Joshi is one of the few manga I will be happy to wait as long as I need to for, plus you’re going do more stuff?! You rock!! How the hell do you find the time?
@Mari-e:
And thank you for your support!
@Leleburger:
Hehe, as far as computers are concerned, I mostly learn via trial and error; so believe me, I’ve done a lot of really, really stupid things in the past, and I have no doubt I will do many more of those in the future. ^-^;
@noname:
Thanks again for your expertise! Yeah, the posts signed as Winterbraid are indeed by me. Hmm… your theory with the adapter being allowed to charge the battery but not to power the system sounds plausible, though I still don’t understand why the laptop freezes (rather than, for example, force shutdown) when the adapter is plugged into a running machine?
From what I understood, the Toshiba System Volume contains system restore information and is not necessary when you possess the original Recovery DVD. Moreover, as you have noticed, the problems occasionally surfaced even when the System Volume and original Vista install were still present, plus they didn’t become this severe immediately after my wiping the hard disk drive.
A big problem with this laptop is, there’s nothing that would look like battery, power or ACPI settings in the BIOS config! I talked to my dad over the phone earlier and he suggested wiping the BIOS; apparently there is a Windows app that does this, but whether there is a Linux or bootable CD equivalent to this, I have no idea yet. I guess I will run a couple diagnostics, then I’ll give it a try…
Heh… I guess any sane person would’ve contacted Toshiba long ago, warranty or not, but communicating with tech support is among things I dislike most. Perhaps I won’t be able to avoid it eventually, but I’d rather exhaust all other possibilities first. ^-^;
@FieryAnimated:
Well, as I think I have mentioned several times before – lack of social life (and ability to skip nights) helps a lot. -_-;
Thanks for releases.
Thanks for another chapter,I finally found some time to catch up with recent releases.
Loved the bath scene,heh Yae initiative there can’t be bad ^^
winterbraid: I copied some information from Toshiba’s support, which may or may not be useful to you when you work on your laptop. One mentions “trickle-charge” and maybe more things I mentioned previously, but specific to your laptop. It’s too much to post as a comment, so if you can see my email address, and would like to check it out, email me, and I’ll send it to you.
By the way, thanks to you and everyone else for all your hard work.
Thanks a lot! I really enjoyed these two chapters, and the hard work you guys put in them n_n!
Thanks a lot Winterbraid & Shijima for Hanjuku releases !
Thanks Shijima and Winterbraid.
I wonder what direction/ conflict this volume will bring for this couple.
Anyway, thanks again. I really like Hanjuku Joshi.
Nice, I’ll be waiting for the next release.
@Yi
Let’s just say someone is a closet romantic IMHO.
I must say this is my favorite chapter so far Yae and Chitose are so cute with the ” Lets go back to my place and………ONLY STUDY ENGLISH!” lol really all the chapter was great but that line made me rofl