toshctl

toshctl is a command-line tool to allow access to much of the Toshiba hardware interface developed by Jonathan Buzzard and Linux toshset by Charles D. Schwieters.

It can do things like set the LCD brightness, set CPU speed and set fan speed.

I wrote this program for my own use and it has been tested only on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100. Use it with your own risk :).
I make this program work like sysctl, so if you know how to use sysctl, then you should know how my program should be used.

This program is a subset of Charles D. Schwieters toshset program. I wrote this one instead of porting toshset becase I want to practise my C++ programming skill. Porting toshset program should not be hard becase toshset can work without Linux Toshiba support.

, no-apmbios.c
The toshset home page is http://schwieters.org/toshset.html
A link for Jonathan's tools is http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/
If you want to know how I setup my Satellite Pro 6100,this is the link.

Supported features

name	type	access	possible value	note
bios.date	time_t	RO
bios.id	integer	RO
bios.version	string	RO
hci.cpu_speed	integer	RW	0 - slow 1 - high
hci.fan	integer	RW	0 - off 1 - low 2 - high
hci.lcd.backlight	integer	RW	0 - off 1 - on	beware set this value to 0, will turn off your screen. You will not see any thing you type on the console
hci.lcd.brightness	integer	RW	0-7	0 - dimmest , 7 - super bright
hci.lcd.mode	integer	RO	0-7
hci.lcd.type	integer	RO	0-5
hci.power_source	integer	RO	0 - baterry 1 - ac adapter
hci.select_bay	integer	RO	0-4
hci.software_suspend	integer	RO	0 - disabled 1 - enabled	This value is actually writable but it is better to suspend your notebook with apm -z in text mode

Note:
RO - Read only
RW - Read/Write
WO - Write only

The current version is 0.0.0p3.

0.0.0p3	Fix compilation error in gcc 3 (FreeBSD 5.1) Note: toshctl can not work with 5.1 APCI. You need to disable ACPI before use this program on FreeBSD 5.1.
0.0.0p2	Change CPU LOW speed value from 0x7FFFF to 0x60000
0.0.0p1	Fix bug in setting hci value
0.0.0	First version

source: tar'd and gzip'd

binary: gzip'd

The binary should work with FreeBSD 4.7. It may work for others as well.
It not work with 5.1+APCI. Disable ACPI if you want to use this program.

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