We signed off on Vista

re: We signed off on Vista

Cheryl D Wise — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:35:55 GMT

Congratulations !

Please till me that on your m200 with the drivers you are using you can sleep. hibernate and have the video wake back up as well.

I'm running RC 2 full time on my m200 and the only major issue I have is the video driver. Trying speech recognition with Word 2007 and Vista is on my "todo') list.

re: We signed off on Vista

sprague — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:45:15 GMT

Yes, as a matter of fact my M200 drivers do sleep properly, and I can rotate the screen and run video. But it took a while to get here -- the pre-release drivers (including on RC2) were still pretty twitchy. I'm sure the ones that are released for production will be just fine.

re: We signed off on Vista

M. Rajesh — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:46:43 GMT

Hi Sprague,

This is very good and definitely Speech is going to rock on Windows Vista. But I have been facing this issue about the non availability of drivers for Realtek AC'97. When using this driver I get the message that Speech Recognition Engine could not be started.

So is there any news about the availability of updated drivers for Realtek so that speech will work on windows Vista RC2.

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Joe — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:09:26 GMT

Aero on a m200? is that including glass? I have a m205, which only has 32MB of video RAM - so no chance of Aero Glass.

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sprague — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:23:50 GMT

I don't have any information about Vista drivers, so I don't know about the Realtek situation other than I am able to use Vista speech just fine on my desktop with Realtek.

I think one reason I'm able to run Glass/Aero on my M200 is that they do something with sharing regular RAM with Video. I have 1GB of regular RAM.

re: We signed off on Vista

Cheryl D Wise — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:12:39 GMT

Like Richard I've had Aero Glass running on my m200 with only 32mb dedicated ram but I have 2 gig of sysem ram. I've had better mre stable video with Aero Glass than Windows Basic. I've been moving back and forth between the two since I need Windows Basic for screenshots for tutorials and a book. I really need to try out the speech recongition since I've got carpel tunnel and too much typing, well hurts.

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Jeff — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:26:47 GMT

What about the screen rotation and other tablet buttons?

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Kenneth Roberts — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:13:00 GMT

Do you have special drivers for your M200? I can't get sleep to work properly with the latest bios / NVIDIA drivers.

re: We signed off on Vista

sprague — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:22:33 GMT

Jeff, yes screen rotation and other tablet buttons work fine for me.

Kenneth, I am using the drivers that come with the internal Microsoft build. I'm not a driver expert, so I'm not sure where you go to get the latest (or if they're publicly available yet). I assume you tried the Toshiba web site?

One thing: I heard there have been some problems with the fan on some of these pre-release drivers, where the motherboard can overheat and cause hardware damage (because of a software bug!) Obviously Toshiba doesn't want those to get out in the wild until they've solved the problem. I haven't had any trouble with mine, but you may want to wait till the official ones are ready before you install.

re: We signed off on Vista

Joe Case — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:29:07 GMT

How about media center? does that work on your m200? I get nothing but a black screen when I launch it...

re: We signed off on Vista

sprague — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:54:17 GMT

Yup, I can run Media Center on my M200.

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Kenneth Roberts — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:56:11 GMT

Thanks for the info, Richard. There are many Toshiba M200 users eagerly waiting to get Vista working properly. If you get any info on when the drivers for the M200 will be released it would be greatly appreciated...