Keyboard Problem

The first problem I encounterd was the keyboard problem. They say that the Toshiba laptops have some strange mechanism in the keyboard circuit, so a special patches are needed.. I found it myself.. Once in a while the keyboard types several times.

For example, I type in the keyboard, it displays like 'Gooooooddd morrrrrningggg'. It's very annoying during installing. But be patient. No way to avoid it during installation as far as I know...

After installation, there is some ways to avoid this problem.

The best resolution I found was ....

Open the X configuration file in /etc/X11/XF86Config
Uncomment the line contains Option "XkbDisable"

That solved the problem...

INTRODUCTION

I bought Toshiba Satellite 2415-S205. Fortunately I bought a open-boxed one, so a little cheap. Equipped with 2.0 GHz M-Pentium 4, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, DVD-CDRW combo, built-in floppy(yuk!). Its price-to-performance ratio is not bad. But when I started to install Linux on it, the nightmare started.

I want to share my experience. Articles will be added here one by one in the format of diary.