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# Toshiba 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.

# 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.

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