My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite M45 S331. My only known hardware issue is that my battery has gone bad by this point in its life. It only holds about a 10 minute charge which is enough to save it from complete power failure in the occasional event that the power cord were to come loose. I don't see how that would be relevant though since Mint detects when I'm running on A/C or when I've switched to my battery.
Been trying to watch the original 50 minute episodes of Star Trek on youtube. It becomes frustrating when I want to sit back and relax but constantly need to tap on my touch pad to see my screen (fullscreen becomes minimized every time I need to wake up my display). I would feel indebted to anyone who can offer a fix for this. Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
If your Ubuntu 9.10 seems to get slower and slower over time, meaning everything from drawing windows to playing video gets laggy and only reboot helps, your computer might have issues with its HPET clock source and/or some peripherals interfere with it. This workaround might fix it for you: in /etc/default/grub change line