RC3 on Toshiba A105 laptop

Finally got around to installing RC# on this laptop. Intel P4 uniprocessor @
1800 mhz, 512 meg ram, SATA 100G hard drive, DVD RW.  Built-in Intel video,
sound, ethernet, 3945abg wireless.  That should describe enough for now.

Installation: only problem is that ACPI kills the system immediately on
boot.  APM enabled works but I'd sure rather get ACPI working.

Video: the Panarama Vesa works like a charm.  Picks up the wide screen LCD
display, painless.

Sound:  DOA - haven't mucked with it as it doesn't interfere yet.

Mouse: using Amouse, the Synaptics touchpad works.  The Logitec wireless
mouse (USB) also works - for a while.  Message pop-ups appear to kill it
and it won't wake up until I reboot.  PITA as I despise the touchpad.  I
haven't had time to exactly nail the sequence that kills it, but so far
I've managed to eventually kill it on every session.

Network: I can get the wired interface to work but I have to manually
install it.  Genmac recognizes the -4222 version I have and apparently
loads it successfully, MPTS and protocol.ini look good.  Xwlan installed
and appears to find the wireless but I still haven't gotten a connection
and IP address.  More playing in order (RTFM). OK, got it running enough to
get an IP while I was working on this.  Great news! Even Samba is running.

First time I've gotten a decent video on this laptop and the 3945abg
wireless is a big improvement.  BTW, I did have to install it manually -
any good reason it wasn't properly installed with the wireless driver once
that was successful?

Only show stopper to date: wireless USB mosude dying! Some would add sound
but at my age I can live w/o the racket.

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