Installing the Omnibook kernel drivers on a Toshiba 1115-s103

		draft version 0.2

		by Rick Richardson
		

If you've built the ACPI-enabled kernel, you might be disappointed
with what you can do with it. ACPI support is minimal.  I found that
while the ACPI support is needed to get proper interrupt routing,
there are better ways than ACPI to access the features of the laptop.
A package originally designed for some HP Ominbook and Pavilion models
gives a more satisfying experience.

So, you might want to forgoe the ACPI kernel, and just build the
omnibook add-on kernel module instead.  I believe this module will
work with or without an ACPI-enabled kernel.

It goes without saying, you have to be root to do this...

The kernel that is running must have APM *disabled* so that it won't
interfere with the APM emulation in the omnibook module.  If you
didn't turn off CONFIG_APM when you initially built a new kernel with
the PCMCIA stuff turned off, then you need to go back and do that and
rebuild, install, and reboot the kernel.

Next, get the 2003/01/07 version of the kernel module....

	wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/omke/omnibook-2003-01-07.tar.gz

Now, untar the module...

	gunzip < omnibook-2003-01-07.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Now build and install the kernel module...

	cd omnibook-2003-01-07
	make
	make install

Test the module...

	insmod omnibook.o apmemu=1 user=1
	cat /proc/omnibook/*
	{ you should see lots of neat output }

	cat /proc/apm
	1.16 1.2 0x0a 0x01 0x00 0x01 100% -1 ?
	{ Thats what you should see with 100% charged battery and on AC power }

If you don't get output like that from /proc/apm, check to make sure you
are not running a kernel with APM compiled in.  If APM is compiled into
the kernel, then the omnibook APM emulation will not be running.

Permanently start the omnibook module on boot by adding it to the end of the
local rc file...

	echo "modprobe omnibook apmemu=1 user=1" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local


The Gnome battery status applet should now work.