Toshiba Portege Z30-A
High-performance ultrabook laptop of Toshiba think for professionals and business. Portégé Z30-A is a long-lasting battery, full-size ports and Intel® Core™ processor laptop of 13.3" and 1.2Kg.
Contents
Specifications
Name | Series Toshiba Portege Z30-A |
Processor | Haswell microarchitecture (4th generation) |
Screen | 13.3" 1366x768 Widescreen |
RAM | 4-8-16GB |
HDD | Toshiba SDD (128 [THNSNJ128GMCU], 256, 512 GB) |
Optical Drive | none |
Graphics | Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (Intel® HD Graphics 4400) |
Network | Ethernet - Intel I218-V, Wifi - Intel Wireless 3160 |
Touchpad | ALPS (Trackstick+Mousepad) |
Fingerprint reader | USB Validity Sensors |
Smart Card Reader | O2 Micro, Inc. OZ776 |
Installation and configuration
CPU & Graphics
Works perfectly out of the box with the typical installation. More information: Intel & Microcode
Touchpad
Works fully with 3.17+ kernel. For LTS kernel, use the patch of vencik for the multi-touch support.
Bluetooth
toshiba_bluetooth kernel module is auto-loaded but is not necessary and, in fact, it is counter-productive, since as soon as you disable bluetooth (e.g. with rfkill), it seems to attempt to re-load the Intel bluetooth firmware every few seconds. Just blacklist the module. Create /etc/modprobe.d/toshiba-blacklist.conf
with:
blacklist toshiba_bluetooth
Wifi
linux-firmware is needed for the correct working of wifi.
Smart Card Reader
Works perfectly with ccid & opensc .
Display Backlight Control
Control with the Fn buttons works correctly in 3.17 and 3.18 kernel. However, in 3.19 kernel, a minimum configuration is needed because toshiba_acpi
kernel module add some non-necessary backlight control. For controlling with Fn, create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/80-backlight.conf
with
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" # use your backlight that works here EndSection
Keyboard Backlight control
The backlight works correctly if it is configured on BIOS. toshiba_acpi
kernel module add support for configuring the backlit of the keyboard. However, Fn-Z does not work. The modules can be changed in /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/TOS6208:00/kbd_backlight_mode
with the modes: 2,8,16.
# tee /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/TOS6208:00/kbd_backlight_mode <<< 2
Fingerprint reader
The last version of fprintd has support for it. However, the image usually is wrong (lengthened) and needs two, three or more tries to obtain verifications.