Reader Julien Lanza reports that BIOS version 1.40 has been released.
There has also been a 1.30 release, which possibly was not made available on Toshiba’s website until 1.40 was released.
The download and changelog are at http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=4005640.
It ships as a Windows EXE file, which is in fact a ZIP archive extractable with ‘unzip’. Inside it are an EXE which can be run from inside Windows to update the BIOS, and an ISO. I successfully burned the ISO to a CD and booted it from a USB CD-ROM drive (in UEFI mode) to run the update.
As Julien notes, a CSM (legacy BIOS) support mode is now offered. Reports from anyone who has tested this would be appreciated 🙂 If anyone proves it working (for installation and subsequent booting of the installed system) we should update the linlap.com page.
With the 1.40 BIOS, I still need “acpi_backlight=vendor” to have working backlight control in X, and I still need “i8042.reset i8042.nomux=1” to have a reliably working keyboard after resume-from-suspend.
The internal ethernet (r8169) is still broken after a suspend/resume cycle.
There are microcode updates, so further investigation might find differences in power consumption, sleep behaviour, etc.
Thanks Julien!
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SO, mentalnirex,
Does the fan control work?
To upgrade BIOS firmware to 1.40, can i burn the os2014198a_140.iso image into a usb 3.0 stick and use the left port 3.0 to install?, if not, tell me how to upgrade. What about running from windows?
If i install mint and disable suspend when iddle and disable suspend from button, and suspend from lid close, will i have problems related to cpu power…etc?
Hi anonymous person with throw-away email account,
What fan control? What fans?
I’m not sure what you mean by “burn” the image to a USB stick. You could try copying it to the USB stick with dd, but that didn’t work for me. I wrote it to a physical CD.
You’ll have to explain what you mean by “problems related to CPU power…etc”.
Hello from Spain,
sorry for using this account i found at bugmenot, as i dont use wordpress, twitter, faceb..
You said: “Fan control (no fans detected by lm-sensors, no fan heard operating)”.
That’s why i want to know if cpu fan works ok with v1.40 of BIOS.
I have heard of hardinfo, and the is a user that says he can’t see fan working .
http://askubuntu.com/questions/482766/how-do-i-know-my-fan-is-working-in-ubuntu
About CPU, i mean:
there you said: “resulting in possible heat damage and unexpected flat battery”.
Another question is.. if you disable sleep on lid close.., why do you need to disable wake up?.
I just don’t know how to use this step:
echo ” LID” > /proc/acpi/wakeup (note the space between the first ” and the word LID)
Test.
Once you’re happy that it works, add that line to /etc/rc.local.
Which line do i add to /etc/rc.local ? and how?
Thank you for your replies!
Hi,
The NB10 does not have any fans.
I don’t have any problems with unexpected suspend or resume.
If you’re not comfortable with editing rc.local yourself, I am not sure that it is a good idea. But if you did want to, the line I have in /etc/rc.local (above the final “exit 0″) is
echo ” LID” > /proc/acpi/wakeup
Cheers