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Dorian Muthig — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:13:12 GMT

You can use the Windows XP driver, but DirectX video playback acceleration is broken in all of them and the GPU power management features cause a bluescreen if the device doesn't respond soon enough. It's not a WDDM driver, wherefor the system cannot restart the device driver if there's a problem.This may cause you to loose your work in running applications and I wouldn't recommend you use the Windows XP drivers on either Windows Vista or Windows 7. If you don't need hardware graphics acceleration or AERO support, you should use the default graphics driver of Windows 7, it also supports powering off the display backlight. Though, closing the lid isn't too much trouble.

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Flos — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:21:58 GMT

Today i found a nice video driver.... everything works except AERO!

working:

-backlite turn off !!!

-Multimonitor support

-Sleep

-Hibernate

-Rotation if you set the flag in the .inf file

The XP driver version is 67.42 you can get it from laptopvideo2go...

set the "RotateFlag," in the modified
nv4dispd.inf file from 4 to 0x40 and now.

for more information look in the tabletpcbuzz forum

@here, but the problem aint fixing.

The only version unaffected is the Windows 7 default driver: with it, the display turns off, but global performance & max resolution sucks way too much.

What now? did somebody find a great video driver with the back-light turning off or was able to achieve the same result in some manner?

Thank you all!

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Dorian Muthig — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:19:46 GMT

The blinking is an issue with the Desktop Window Manager or the LDDM graphics driver model and how it allocates RAM for graphics cards with less than 128MB of dedicated graphics memory. I heard it's a 'won't fix'. Either lower your display resolution to 1024x768 or disable Aero.

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phermi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:16:12 GMT

Dodo,

Great info. I wonder if you can help me further. I am using the Nvidia drivers from the file you posted (v7.15.10.9752) and AERO works beatify. However, I am getting a very annoying display blinking.

On a more positive note, the SD solution works like a champ and ready boost can be tricked into working. Also, I combined that with your Tablet PC Extensions and my Fn-keys for brightness control now work too.

If you have any suggestion for the blinking, it would be great.

Thanks.

Phermi

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Dorian Muthig — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:23:06 GMT

Use a 1GB or smaller card and the sdbus.sys driver from Windows Vista. SD card larger than 1GB don't have native controller support and have to be accessed via software emulation, which utilizes the CPU and is slower. 1MB/s to 4MB/s is normal.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

shevron — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:59:21 GMT

I have used the HP Secure Digital (SD) Bus Driver 6.0.4069.1 2000 driver for my m200 but somehow i get very slow transfere speeds. nornal sds that do 17 MB/s barly do 2.5 MB/s, thus cannot be used as a raedyboost device,
any ideas. thanks

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Dorian Muthig — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:39:55 GMT

When you power up the tablet PC and the Toshiba boot logo is displayed, press ESC and hold it. A message will appear, asking you to press F1 to enter the BIOS menu. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to display mode on the right. Select LCD+CRT with the PgUp and PGDn keys. Press End to save and exit. In order to use an external monitor, either set clone mode or disable Aero before you plug it in. If you use the external monitor as an additional display, Aero has to be disabled and the used resolution for the external monitor may not be higher than 1920x1200@60Hz.
2. The only problems with the driver are that the display may not turn on when waking up from sleep. It can be turned on by adjusting the display brightness using the funtion keys. Also, Aero may get disabled if your applications or superfetch occupy to much RAM. That's a bug in the virtual graphics memory scaler that has worsened in Windows 7, because Aero only crashes and recovers constantly instead of auto-disabling (like it did in Vista after 2 tries). I don't know yet if that's been fixed.
3. I don't really understand what you want to control with that button, but they're just the arrow keys, enter (center) and ESC (short pressing the button next to the cross button).
4. It's an application accessing the hardware directly, running as a resident in the background. It was removed from the Vista driver set, because hardware access requires administrator privilegues. Though, since Windows 7 allows an administrator to run applications with admin rights by putting them in the startup folder in the start menu, it might be working again. I'll look into it, when I reinstall Windows 7 on the tablet. All tests I've done on it are based off of the Beta and some testing with the RC on another computer and might change with the RC/using the tablet.

@JimNemesis: Secure Digital High Capacity cards aren't supported. They might work in software mode, if their capacity is formed out of even blocks of normal SD capacities. This means a 6GB card won't work, because its not a multiple of 2, but probably 3 2GB blocks. I don't know about that HP driver, nor about the specifics for your SD card, but you can try the normal Toshiba driver for Vista, otherwise you're out of luck with using your uncommon type of SD card.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

JimNemesis — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:23:41 GMT

Hi Flos,

I've loaded the HP SD card reader drivers that you mentioned onto RC 1, however I cannot read from my Sandisk Class 4 6GB microSD (in adapter) card. The drivers show the device as 'Toshiba Secure Digital host controller' with the provider as Microsoft (these were downloaded directly from the HP FTP site - sp38175.exe). My 1GB micro SD is fine.

Did you do anything else to enable the reader to read your SDHC card?

Can you please confirm this is the same driver:

sdbus.inf
======

[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Class=SDHost
ClassGUID={a0a588a4-c46f-4b37-b7ea-c82fe89870c6}
Provider=%Msft%
CatalogFile=sddriver.cat
DriverVer=10/01/2002,6.0.4069.1

[SourceDisksNames]
1 = %DiskId1%, sdhcpkg.tag,,

[SourceDisksFiles]
sdbus.sys = 1,,
sdhcinst.dll =1,,

;
; Information for installing the SD class
;
[ClassInstall32]
AddReg=ClassAddReg
CopyFiles = ClassCopyFiles

[ClassAddReg]
HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CoDeviceInstallers,{a0a588a4-c46f-4b37-b7ea-c82fe89870c6},0x00010008, "sdhcinst.dll,SdClassCoInstaller"
HKR,,,,%SDClassName%
HKR,,Icon,,"2"
HKR,,Installer32,%REG_SZ%,"sdhcinst.dll,SdClassInstall"
HKR,,NoInstallClass,,1

[ClassCopyFiles]
sdhcinst.dll

;
; List of manufacturers and devices
;
[Manufacturer]
%Generic%=Generic
%TED%=TED
%TI%=TI
%Toshiba%=Toshiba

[ControlFlags]
ExcludeFromSelect=PCI\cc_080500
ExcludeFromSelect=PCI\cc_080501
ExcludeFromSelect=PCI\VEN_1679&DEV_3000
ExcludeFromSelect=PCI\VEN_104c&DEV_ac9f
ExcludeFromSelect=PCI\VEN_1179&DEV_0805

[Generic]
%PCI\CC_080500.DeviceDesc%=SDHost,PCI\CC_080500
%PCI\CC_080501.DeviceDesc%=SDHost,PCI\CC_080501

[TED]
%PCI\VEN_1679&DEV_3000.DeviceDesc%=SDHost, PCI\VEN_1679&DEV_3000

[TI]
%PCI\VEN_104c&DEV_ac9f.DeviceDesc%=SDHost, PCI\VEN_104c&DEV_ac9f

[Toshiba]
%PCI\VEN_1179&DEV_0805.DeviceDesc%=SDHost, PCI\VEN_1179&DEV_0805

[sdbus_Service_Inst]
ServiceType    = %SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER%
StartType      = %SERVICE_DEMAND_START%
ErrorControl   = %SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL%
ServiceBinary = %12%\sdbus.sys
LoadOrderGroup = System Bus Extender
AddReg         = SDBUSServiceReg

[SDBUSLocationReg]
HKR,,UINumberDescFormat,,%SDBUSSlot%

[SDBUSReg]
HKR,,Driver,,"sdbus.sys"

[SDBUSServiceReg]
HKR,Parameters,SdCmdFlags,1,    06,01, 09,19, 0A,19, 0D,11, \
                                10,01, 11,01, 12,01, 18,05, 19,05, \
                                19,01, 1A,01, 1B,01, 1C,01, \
                                20,05, 21,05, 26,05, \
                                2A,01, \
                                34,02, 35,02, \
                                37,01, 38,01, \
                                22,01, 23,05, 24,01, 25,01

HKR,Parameters,SdAppCmdFlags,1, 06,01, 0D,01, 16,01, 17,01, 33,01, \
12,01, 19,01, 1A,01, 26,01, 2B,01, \
2C,01, 2D,01, 2E,01, 2F,01, 30,01, 31,01

[CSCopyFiles]
sdbus.sys

[DestinationDirs]
ClassCopyFiles=11
CSCopyFiles=12

;
; Standard host controller
;
[SDHost]
CopyFiles=CSCopyFiles
AddReg=SDBUSReg

[SDHost.Services]
AddService = sdbus, 2, sdbus_Service_Inst

[SDHost.HW]
AddReg=SDBUSLocationReg

[Strings]
SDClassName="Secure Digital host controllers"
;
; Manufacturer name strings
;
Generic="SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller Vendor"
Msft="Microsoft"
TED="Tokyo Electron Device"
TI="Texas Instruments"
Toshiba="Toshiba"

;
; Device Decription strings
;
PCI\VEN_104c&DEV_ac9f.DeviceDesc="Texas Instruments Secure Digital host controller"
PCI\VEN_1679&DEV_3000.DeviceDesc="Tokyo Electron SD Standard host controller"
PCI\VEN_1179&DEV_0805.DeviceDesc="Toshiba Secure Digital host controller"

PCI\CC_080500.DeviceDesc="SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller"
PCI\CC_080501.DeviceDesc="SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller"

;
;
;
SDBUSSlot = "SD Host Slot %1!u!"

SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER = 1
SERVICE_BOOT_START    = 0
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START = 1
SERVICE_DEMAND_START = 3
SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL = 1
SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE = 0
REG_EXPAND_SZ         = 0x00020000
REG_DWORD             = 0x00010001
REG_SZ                = 0x00000000

Thanks, Jim

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Flos — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:27:15 GMT

1. yes you are right... no bluescreens any more and hibernation ans suspend works with your driver 97.52
but, i can't get my second screen to work. it works only when i dont plugin my second screen on start up but the internal screen is indentified as unknown screen. if i plug in the second screen on start then it shows wired stuff like white or colored lines after the drivers are loaded. only the external screen work. but he gets rotatet because my m200 is in my dockingstation always in tablet mode.
the driver dosen't recognize the inernal screen correctly

2. can't see any option for rotation in the bios menus.../ i tink its a driver (windows 7) problem not a bios problem, because everything is fine in xp.

3. the buttons work nice, sorry.
Only this mobility center is realy useless with it.
The Toshiba CrossMenu for windows xp was disigned to be used with the 4-way-bottons so it was realy nice to use.

4. i actually dont know how the computer speaks to them... there is was never a driver for that... i think the software has direct access to them ?!? or not?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Dorian Muthig — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:45:14 GMT

The SD controller can work in two modes. Hardware (or BIOS) control and software control. When controlled through hardware it supports up to 1GB standard SD cards. When controlled through software, the support for the cards is based on a CPU implementation and impacts the systems performance or battery life when reading/writing data to an SD card. Support for cards larger than 2GB was never planned and even software support for 'large' standard cards was experimental.

1. If you used the drivers I linked, you shouldn't have bluescreen problems. Check your hardware and memory for defects.
2. You can change the screen that's being rotated, if the display mode is set to LCD+CRT in the BIOS.
3. The navigation button should still work, even without a driver.
4. The pen buttons on the right of the display are not supported by the common modules for Vista. Currently I'm running XP on that tablet, I'll look some time when I'm reinstalling 7 on it how I can make them work. I never really needed them, so maybe I forgot.

@Curt Nichols: Copying the drivers onto an USB pen drive or external hard drive and installing the from there works very well, too. Intel's wifi and NIC drivers are in the package. Though, you should upgrade them via Windows Update after you got the internet working to enable full support.

Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Curt Nichols — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:45:51 GMT

UPDATE: With the availability of Windows 7 RC I've downloaded the RC bits and done a fresh install. I used an external adapter to get things up and running, and with the first Windows Update 7 brought down the driver for the internal wireless adapter. And now the internal adapter is up and running.

In short, the RC release fixed this problem for me (fresh install).

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Flos — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:01:28 GMT

Hi Guys
I'm also testing windows 7 with the Toshiba Portegé M200
the SD Card reader also supports SDHC cards even with windows XP!
i'm using it with a micro sdhc class 6 card with 8 GB, adapted to SD without any trouble.

I also found a working driver for Windows 7 (found it over the VEN/DEV ID and google).
it is called: HP Secure Digital (SD) Bus Driver 6.0.4069.1 2000

Problems i have:
1. At the moment only Sleep dosen't work (Bluscreen) Already known. (problems with the NVIDIA Drivers i Think)
2. If Primary Screen is the Extren Monitor the rotation button Rotates the wrong screen.
3. CrossButton Menu (Windows Mobility Center) or how it is called is Crappy for use with the Cross Button!!
Possible to use the old Cross Menu/ or make it Useable?
4.The Stylus Hover Buttons/ Pen Buttons dosen't work. (can't install the Common Modules from Toshiba wich are for vista (unsupported OS also with compability set to Vista or XP)

Has someone got them to work or is nobody using them ?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

bubmc — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:41:10 GMT

wow dodo, that trick with using a basic theme and changing bios (not sure if that was necessary) did the trick for me! Still Sleep and full screen video don't work but at least I can use my secondary monitor and hybernate. Thanks!

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robro — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:42:20 GMT

man, you know your stuff. thanks for all that info. I guess my hopes for Aero are dashed, but thanks for the great explanation.

I have everything working, sound, video, etc, except for Aero, and was just wondering about it.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Dorian Muthig — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:07:28 GMT

With the driver in the package you already have the best driver, there is no better one, older drivers cause rotation problems or don't work with Aero and newer ones don't work without Aero (and UAC) when the screen is rotated or they don't work at all. Due to a bug in the LDDM shared memory implementation which scales the memory at need for Superfetch caching files and not only running applications or the superfetch cache only, the screen will flicker whenever such scaling takes place on any video card that has less than 64MB GRAM at resolutions with width greater than 1280 or stay completely blank. If you need Aero, use 1024x768 resolution. Also this is the only driver which supports turning the LCD light off when the lid is closed. The light will otherwise never turn off. If for some reason it stays off, you can turn it back on by using the [Fn]+[F6]/[F7] keys for adjusting display brightness. To get external monitor support working, reboot the machine, go into the BIOS option by pressing [ESC] when Toshiba appears on the screen and [F1] when prompted. Make sure the display setting is set to LCD+CRT on the right. Playing video on an external monitor in fullscreen will do some fancy stuff on one of the monitors for unknown reasons if the resolution is set too high. Non-fullscreen mode works fine, but might be slow. Make sure to turn Aero off before enabling your secondary monitor, 32MB is just enough to allocate two screens at 1400x1050 (internal LCD) and 1920x1200 (external monitor).

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

robro — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:25:24 GMT

How did you get Aero working? I can't use any of the cool features, like the winkey + tab, and the preview windows from the dock. Can you get those working?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

bubmc — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:08:02 GMT

Am I the only one unable to get secondary screen to work? The screen gets recognized (Dell 2405FPW) and i'm able to set the correct resolution (1920x1200) but the screen stays black and says it is in standby. Also tried another external display without avail.
I've tried many video drivers including the one mentioned above in the vista.rar. And many custom inf's and drivers from laptopvideo2go (97.54, 98.02, 98.16). Automatic rotation does work but for productivity I really need a secondary screen.

Please let me know what driver version you use and if external screens work or not.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Alain De Vreese — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:49:58 GMT

I have same problems and was not able to resolve it untill now ... anyone a solution?
Thanks!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

shevron — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:20:11 GMT

thanks ,, the SD finally works. just replacing the file and restarting.

now if anyone has got a better graphics card driver than modded ForceWare 97.54 driver. please place a link. with w7 aero it seems ok but the screen blinks whenever its doing something,, and the screen doesn't wake up from sleep unless you diconnect/connect the charger then it wakes up as the backlight changes.. yaa also external video doesn't work at all. thanks

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

Dorian Muthig — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:11:33 GMT

You can download the system file from here.
To replace the file, you might need to change file ownership and permissions to write to the file like described there: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
You should know that the M200 SD card reader natively only supports SD cards with up to 1GB. The driver adds support for cards with 2GB and they work. However, if you're using boot protection with a key file on your SD card, make sure you're not using a card with more than 1GB. SDHC cards are NOT supported as well.

To get wifi working, simply install the driver form the package, one of the is for the normal LAN and the other for wifi, just install one and then get the current LAN and wifi drivers from Windows Update.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

shevron — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:04:52 GMT

Dodo or anyone plz post the :
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdstor.sys
file.

toshiba official vista drivers, not exactly needed in w7 as they conflect but the display driver is alright, unless you want to use the nforce driver in the secod link
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

things that are worth look at people
http://mobilepcwiki.com/mpc/index.php?title=Toshiba/M200/Windows_Vista_Installation_Notes

as for the wireless card
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/wlan/?page=downloads
mine is the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 one wich if u want you can find the latest on support.intel.com

so just the sd for now.
someone plz upload the file of find a solution
Thanks

Re: Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

bmcmullen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:21:19 GMT

Wasn't able to get wireless working either....Intel site drivers and toshiba drivers didn't work