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Toshiba is a Japanese company that manufactures electronic, computer, and industrial equipments.

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Can not boot anymore after a boot repair

I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 on my Toshiba satellite z930. Ubuntu is the only OS on this computer (windows 8 was wiped right away). Everything went great, except that the following message appeared: ...
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Wireless not working on Toshiba Satellite C55-A5281

The wireless doesn't work on my Toshiba Satellite C55-A5281. The device originally came with Windows 8, but I removed it snd installed Ubuntu. Wireless does not work "out of the box" and there are no ...
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Cannot adjust brightness after sleep

I have a Toshiba Satellite R830 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04.1 64 bit. The Fn + F6 and Fn + F7 buttons adjust brightness until I put my laptop on sleep. On wakeup they don't work any longer. Is there a ...
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I can't boot from USB: Error setting up gfxboot

I have a Toshiba NB305 netbook, so if I want to install Ubuntu I have to do it by an USB. I downloaded the ISO from the official webside and burned it to the USB, and when I try to install the system ...
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Toshiba Satellite P745 Touchpad problem

Good day to all, I am using a Toshiba Satellite P745 installed with Ubuntu 14.04. I suddenly cannot use my laptop's touchpad to move my cursor, but if I am using a USB mouse, it is working perfectly. ...
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Bluetooth: how to solve "not enough free handles to register service" error?

Since a couple of weeks I'm having an annoying problem. The connection switch in bluetooth is greyed out: So in order to re-establish a connection, I have to re-pair the devices (a bluetooth speaker ...
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Realtek rtl8192ce wireless slow intermittent access

I am a noob to linux and could use some help. After much searching and reading I have been able to connect my Toshiba C665-S5177 to the internet. To do so I had to install the Realtek drivers for ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Wifi/Brightness Fn Keys don't work

I have scoured the Internet trying to find a solution to my problem. I have a Toshiba L755D-S5171 and like many people the Fn key works to a very small extent. The Fn+3/4 works to vol-down/up ...
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No WIFI or LAN on Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 Live CD/USB using Toshiba qosmio x870

I recently had issues with secure boot and couldn't boot the Live CD/USB but after disabling secure boot, I was able to 'TRY UBUNTU'. My currently problem is that I can't access WIFI or LAN from ...
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Brightness control works only in Ubuntu, doesn't in Xubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Mint (Toshiba Satellite L30)

All tested OS were in latest versions (12.04.1 and Mint 13 Mate&XFCE). Already tried xfce panel aplet for screen brightness, acpi_backlight=vendor argument in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and ...
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Can't adjust the brightness on a Toshiba C665 laptop

I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 i my Toshiba Laptop Satellite C665-I5011 In this I am not able to change the LCD brightness. When i press Fn+F6 or Fn+F7 the brightness bar is changing but the LCD ...
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How to make my Toshiba u940 laptop's keyboard backlit to work?

I am using the latest Xubuntu x64 version as of this posting.. It's installed in dual boot with Windows 10.. the KB Backlight is working when I boot on Windows and from the bios.. The moment It enters ...
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Ubuntu Install Toshiba Laptop Fail

I installed ubuntu 16.04 x64 on my Toshiba laptop via Bootable USB. I am booting with UEFI. Previously, only windows was installed on the laptop. I first chose 'delete disk and install ubuntu' option ...
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Toshiba resume automatically after suspending in Ubuntu 14.04

I have a Toshiba L845 and i when i suspend ubuntu it wake up 2 seconds later. Here you are some info. cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=80498f02-8962-...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Toshiba touchpad not working

I have a Toshiba Satellite T130-10G laptop and I can't get my touchpad to work in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (I have tried also 12.10 and did not work either). In the same laptop I have Windows 7 installed and ...
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Unable to activate "Enable Wireless"

It's my first time installing Linux (Ubuntu) at my desktop, and it seems not to be a good start. I have Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, in a Toshiba, but I'm unable to activate Wireless network, via System ...
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14.04 LTS on Toshiba Satellite C75D-B. Brightness, WiFi, Fn-keys control and Suspend problems

This is a new laptop that I just bought. Came with Windows 8.1, now is a dual-boot. Sound Controls and Mute work with F9, F10, F11 like they do in Windows, but F12 for WiFi, F2 and F3 for brightness ...
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Invert fn key in Toshiba Satellite?

I have a Toshiba Satellite S55-B5280. On the F* keys are also functions like play, pause, volume, brightness, etc, with an FN key to choose between F* or the multimedia keys. After upgrading from ...
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AMD E1-1200 Slow?

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 32bit with Gnome 3 on a Toshiba 850D-104 for a friend of mine. This friend only surfs the web, checks for emails and plays online flash games a lot I was chocked to ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS fails to find Intel HD Graphics 3000 and video playing error

hello i'm new to linux i'm using Toshiba c850 notebook and i can't install ' intel HD graphics 3000 ' driver on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (32 bit) the problem is when i play HD movies , video is not ...
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