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philip3270 · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

Portege 3480ct, with every piece of hardware including the useless winmodem to work. However, for strangeness, the lower PCMCIA slot is broken (recieves no power)

SuperJudge · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:02 am Post subject:

I just got the ALPs touchpad scrolling to work, too.

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mrgabe · n00b Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 1 Location: San Diego, CA

I've got gentoo dual booting on a panasonic toughbook 71 pentium III, 256MB RAM, 30GB drive, using a xircom cardbus eth adapter (tulip). I also use prism2 based wifi, and have a dvd/cdrw combo drive. I had loaded (all recent) mandrake, fedora, slackware, debian, ubuntu on this laptop, trying to find something that fits my needs/wants... and it's Gentoo I've decided to keep. I haven't set up the suspend to disk on it, but what I have working is: kde, OpenOffice.org, sound, dvd, cdrw, wifi, external usb mouse, clanbomber, xboard, firefox, mplayer (with wmv 9 codec!), LAMP, samba, perl, python, postgres, cicsco vpn + vnc, vmware -- everything that's important to me!

By the way, I was in a motorcycle accident last year April -nothing too major, got hit at about 25mph and took a good spill- the toughbook was in my -unpadded- book bag and hit the street hard enough to break the power supply. Laptop got a ding, but booted up fine. Not a dead pixel or bad sector to speak of.
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Fire Hazard · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:

I got a dual boot HP pavilion ze5170. I'm amazed that the built in mouse pad works. When I mean works I mean I can actually turn it off. Before when I ran Red Hat 9 it wouldn't turn off. Most of the bottons don't work like the web button, volume botton, etc. I don't have the modem working either, stupid winmodem. Other than that I'm very happy with how it works. Though when I play DVDs its like jumpy for some damn reason. Haven't put the time in to fix that yet. Trying to get my external hard drive to work right now. On a very positive note though, I got my Nomad Zen mp3 player to work, Gnomad2 fucking rocks!!! I love linux/GNU/open source.
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_puck_ · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:

I use a IBM Thinkpad R51 and everything is working great. No flaws. I also have a Dell Insipron 8100 which works fully except for the acpi things.
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My Acer TabletPC/Subnotebook combo called C100 is on its way being converted to Gentoo (from SuSE). Right now I have heavy difficulties with getting ACPI to work, see
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-331266.html ...

I know that it works with Linux, Knoppix is just doing fine on it but I do not want to boot from CD or even install Knoppix on its harddisk, I'd like to use Gentoo.

Besides that the internal touchpad (Synaptics) works great, as well as X and Sound and internal wired network. For wireless I go with a D-Link DWL650G pcmcia card, which runs just great with the madwifi-driver software ..

If I ever resolve these ACPI problems I will go on and enable the tablet functions (like Screen rotating and the EMC pen to write directly on the screen).

By using the Acerhk software I was able to enable the additional buttons of the gadget, one thing on my todo-list is to write a little scripts which checks my IMAP mail account and let the LED of my mail button blink if some message is waiting in my inbox.

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frameRATE · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

I hope to have a fully working iBook here in a few hours...
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cmvanbrunt · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 31

I'm running on an Emachines M6809 (AMD64) notebook. I've got everything working except for suspend.

noremac · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Australia

I have a portege 3110 and a 3440 both which run gentoo fine.

bCookie · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Your kitchen

A Toshiba Tecra 8000 Pentium 300 with 64mb of ram, and 2 gig hard drive. Installed stage 1, and running gnome. Don't ask. :lol:

webguru24 · n00b Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 4 Location: U.S.

Got Gentoo 2005.0 working on Compaq Presario 2570US. Including the Broadcom 54g Adapter.
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gdq · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 97

- I got gentoo running now for more then 1,5 years on a "no-brand" BCY27 (distributed in Belgium via www.jasa.be under the name of QForce - but when I told them I did not want to pay for the pre-installed Windows XP and would use it to run linux on it , they asked me to confirm them that I revoked the one year warranty ...) , I didn't have any problem installing gentoo on it (I have to admit : emerge -uv world gave me regurarely severe headaches ... but I admit , I was to blame every now and then as well ...)

- tried to install gentoo on an Acer Aspire 1300, but gave up (it was for my sons birthday, and I was under time pressure) after having spent half a day trying to get the wireless pcmcia card and the sound working ...) so I installed knoppix, but I'm not happy with it, as the partition scheme looks like /dev/hda1 -> / and /dev/hda2 -> swap , ugly. So when my son is away during holidays I'll give it an other try with gentoo - all advice welcome ..

Mad Merlin · Veteran Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 1155

I'm using a Thinkpad T40, great machine, great Linux support. Does the standard APM and ACPI suspend perfectly, all the other ACPI stuff works great (speedstepping, screen blanking and and such). Didn't come with a wireless card, got a D-Link DWL-G650 A1 for it awhile after and it works great. Getting DRI working properly for the Radeon 7500 was a bit of a pain at first (2 years ago, was using Mandrake at the time), but these days it's a snap, turns out it was more an issue with the AGP BUS not being fully supported yet at the time than the card itself. It apparently can also do hardware hibernate if you set up /dev/hda1 specially for it, but I have no need to hibernate, suspend is a much better (and faster) option.

pijalu · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 365

Sony Vaio FS-115M, gentoo 2005.0 stage 1/3 with gcc 3.4 and march=pentium-m, full ~x86

* Video: 1280x800 on X (nvidia driver) - 1024x768 fb console
* WIFI and LAN on board: OK
* Sound: OK
* Touchpad ALPS: OK (just tapping little bit too sensitive...)
* FnKeys: volume and screen brightness OK : used a modified patch for sony_acpi from sonypi author and a quick and dirty homebrew handler [all FN keys are fine.. just don't want to implement them]

flipnode · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 172 Location: USA

I have had great success with gentoo and my laptop! I am using a Dell Inspiron 4150 p4 with an ati 7500 mobility 16mb grahpics chip. If you want real! Power! Use the Jackass/Gentoo project!!
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capone007 · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 50

I successfully use a "Toshiba Satellite 2430-301" notebook! Works great!!! some other distr. won't work, but gentoo runs fine from day one

johor · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Portugal

I have a hp pavilion, and all the hardware is working(even the internal modem) .....it's a pleasure to install/use gentoo !

tunguska · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: IBM Thinkpad A31p

Since three years I have a IBM Thinkpad A31p. Everything works fine apart from my internal wireless card. But that's just a HW defect.
The only thing to object to is the video driver support. The original ATI drivers won't work.

ecthalion · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

All (except WinModem which i don't need so i didn't play around) working on hp 9020. Gentoo 2005.0

jmpnz · n00b Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 23

From: http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/~park/dell.html . Thiis document has since been removed so I am recreating it here.

Gentoo Linux 1.2
Introductory Material

1. Download the Gentoo Linux 1.2 (i686) ISO from ibiblio.org.
[ gentoo-i686-1.2.iso (ibiblio.org) | gentoo-i686-1.2.iso (gatech.edu) ]
2. Follow the Preliminary Steps in the Debian guide below for partitioning information. NOTE: You only need to do this if you plan on installing Windows 2000/XP before Gentoo. Here is my partition table for the curious:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 14 1033 8193150 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 1034 1164 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 1165 3890 21896595 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1165 2184 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2185 3890 13703413+ 83 Linux

3. Install Windows 2000/XP now if you wish to dual boot (this can be done at a later time as noted above).
4. Insert the Gentoo CD and reboot.

Pre-Stage 1 Installation

1. Note: nano -w should be used as your text editor temporarily until you can emerge your favorite editor.
2. Press enter at the boot: prompt.
3. Press enter through the keymap and the PCI autodetection.
4. Load the NIC driver: modprobe eepro100
5. Load the PCMCIA stuff:

insmod pcmcia_core
insmod i82365
insmod ds

Remove the 0x800-0x8ff line via nano -w /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. Insert your PCMCIA cards and then run cardmgr -f.
6. If you use DHCP, simply run dhcpcd eth0 or whatever ethernet interface you need. For static setups:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

Be sure to use your own correct IP address! Now modify resolv.conf:

domain mydomain.com
nameserver 10.0.0.1
nameserver 10.0.0.2

Again, make sure your domain and nameserver lines match your configuration.
7. If you haven't already setup your partitions, now is the time to do so via fdisk. See above for an example partition table. I'm using ext3 for my linux partitions; you can use SGI's XFS or ReiserFS if you wish. Make the /dev/hda1 be the /boot partition.
8. Now initialize your partitions (I'll use my partition table as an example):

mkswap /dev/hda3
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
mke2fs -j /dev/hda5
mke2fs -j /dev/hda6
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda1
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda5
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda3

Now we make mountpoints and mount the partitions:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

9. Now it's time to mount the Gentoo CD:

mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom -o ro -t iso9660

Stage1->3 Installation

1. Using the Stage1 or Stage2 tarball is not recommended, instead you should go straight for the Stage3 tarball unless you really feel like bootstrapping or emerge'ing your system.
2. To unpack Stage3:

cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stage3-i686.tar.tbz2
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
emerge rsync

The last line downloads the Portage tree (~10MB), it's not necessary but recommended.

Post Stage 3 Installation

1. Set your correct timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime

The above sets Eastern Standard Time. Use your appropriate timezone.
2. Time to compile the kernel:

emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

Make sure Dell Laptop Support, APM, devfs, ext3, eepro100 are selected. Take time to look through the options and select the correct ones, alternatively you can use my custom kernel config (Debian users, do not use this config file!)
[ config-2.4.19-gentoo-r7 ]
3. Compile and install the modules:

make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.4.19-gentoo-r7

4. Install the system logger and cron package:

emerge app-admin/metalog
rc-update add metalog default
emerge sys-apps/vcron

5. Update your /etc/fstab file to correctly match your partition table (also add the user option to your cdrom line so non-root users can mount cd's).
6. Change the root password via passwd.
7. Update network files: /etc/hostname:

mymachine.mydomain.com

/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.101 mymachine.mydomain.com mymachine

/etc/conf.d/net should be modified similar to how you configured it for Pre-Stage1 Installation, then run:

rc-update add net.eth0 default

8. Finally, it's time to configure grub. Type grub at the prompt and then enter in the grub commands:

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

Now create a grub menu list via /boot/grub/menu.lst:

default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=gentoo linux 1.2 (kernel-2.4.19-gentoo-r7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.19-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda5 hdb=ide-scsi

If you are dual-booting to Windows, add:

title=windows
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

9. You're done installing the base Gentoo system! Type the following to reboot:

exit
cd /
unmount /mnt/gentoo/boot
unmount /mnt/gentoo/proc
unmount /mnt/gentoo
reboot

10. Run update-modules as soon as your system boots back up.

Post Installation

1. Add a regular user via: adduser -m username. Add the user into all the groups via usermod -G wheel,audio,cdrom,video,cdrw,users username.
2. We need to emerge a few things to get the Dell Fan and Buttons working:

emerge dev-lang/tcl dev-lang/tk

3. After Tcl/Tk has been compiled, get the i8kutils package. Untar the source, then:

make
mv i8kmon i8kbuttons i8kctl /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/i8kfan /usr/bin/i8kctl

4. Grab my /etc/i8kmon and /etc/init.d/i8kutils files and place them in the correct location. If you wish to get your Dell Buttons working, see the appropriate Debian section below (you will also need to emerge the aumix package). Then run:

rc-update add i8kutils default
/etc/init.d/i8kutils

[ Massimo Dal Zotto's Webpage (i8kutils) | /etc/i8kmon | /etc/init.d/i8kutils ]
5. Enable the portmapper for RPC services like NFS:

rc-update add portmap default

6. Fix the pam error with cdwriter, modify /etc/security/console.perms, find the root.cdwriter line, modify to:

<console> 0660 <burner> 0660 root.cdrw

7. Update the /etc/modules.autoload file to contain the following lines (sound will be later):

ide-scsi
ieee1394
ohci1394
sbp2

Of course, if you didn't compile the firewire module or SCSI emulation module then the above isn't necessary.
8. Now is time to actually make your system useful. The window manager I will be using is KDE3. If you want to install something else, just emerge it.

Endless Compiling

1. This is why I said earlier you should do this an hour or two before you go to sleep. It's time to download and "emerge" your system.

For the curious, emerging my system took 12-13 hours! But the payoff is well worth it. KDE3 feels more responsive than the Debian packaged WindowMaker (due to a variety of factors, i.e. pre-emptive kernel, -10 renicing of X11, and optimizations for the i686 arch).
2. Here is a listing of sources that I emerge'd:
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
* sys-apps/apmd
* sys-apps/hdparm
* sys-apps/wireless-tools
* net-misc/openssh
* media-sound/alsa-driver
* media-sound/alsa-utils
* app-editors/vim
* app-editors/emacs
* kde-base/kde
* dev-util/cvs
* net-www/mozilla
* net-www/lynx
* net-www/netscape-flash
* app-office/openoffice-bin
* app-text/acroread
* media-sound/xmms
* media-sound/alsa-xmms
* net-print/gimp-print-cups
* media-gfx/gimp
* media-gfx/imagemagick
* app-cdr/koncd
* net-im/kopete
* media-libs/divx4linux
* media-libs/xline-lib
* media-video/xine-ui
* media-video/xine-dvdnav
* media-video/xine-d4d
* media-video/xine-d5d
* media-video/xine-dmd
* media-gfx/gqview
* x11-themes/mosfet-liquid-widgets
* x11-themes/connectiva-crystal
Make sure you fix the /etc/._cfg000* files and clean old packages!
3. Add hdparm and apmd to your init scripts once everything finishes compiling:

rc-update add hdparm default
rc-update add apmd default

[ /etc/init.d/hdparm ]

XFree86, KDE 3, and nVidia GeForce2 Go

1. It's time to fix the X Server to run with the GeForce2 Go card. Grab the 2802 drivers, not the 2960 drivers!
[ nVidia Linux Drivers | NVIDIA_kernel 1.0-2802 | NVIDIA_GLX 1.0-2802 ]
2. Ungzip/tar these files into /usr/local/src and run make in each of the directories, however, it's suggested that you do the APM "hack" now. Read the Advanced Power Management information in the Debian section below. Remember to create the kernel driver first, then the GLX module.
3. Create an XF86Config-4 file using the readme provided with the kernel driver, or use my XF86Config-4 file.
[ /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 | apm_i8000.tar.gz ]
4. Note with the above apm_i8000 script, you must modify the resume ifconfig and route lines to properly reflect your IP address settings.
5. Modify /etc/rc.conf to load kdm on startup, find the DISPLAYMANAGER line:

DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm

Now, update the startup script:

rc-update add xdm default

6. Before your reboot, get USB and sound working in working order first.

USB Setup

1. USB should be working with a correctly compiled kernel, to mount the usbdevfs add to your /etc/fstab:

none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

ESS Maestro3i and ALSA Sound Setup

1. emerge the alsa-driver and alsa-utils sources if you haven't done so already. Modify the /etc/modules.d/alsa file, find the IMPORTANT: section and modify:

## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-maestro3
## OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

Add the following lines to /etc/modules.autoload:

snd-maestro3
snd-pcm-oss

2. Now run update-modules. Verify that the /etc/devfsd.conf file has the correct ALSA/OSS settings. Now it's time to set up the soundcard:

modprobe snd-maestro3
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
amixer set Master 80% unmute
amixer set PCM 90% unmute
rc-update add alsasound default

3. Give your system a reboot. X, KDE3, USB, and Sound should all be working!

Firewire Setup

1. If you added the lines into /etc/modules.autoload then we are almost to a point where we can use our firewire device (mine is a CD burner).
2. Download the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script and copy it into /usr/local/sbin.
[ rescan-scsi-bus.sh ]
3. Plug-in your device and run the above script. Your devices should be automatically added/updated.

DVD Playback

1. First, create a /dev/dvd link:

ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /dev/dvd

2. emerge xine or ogle to play DVDs (I personally use xine with xine-dvdnav).
3. Run xine, change the memcopy method to SSE.
4. That's it! Enjoy your DVDs!

Wireless Card Setup

* emerge the sys-apps/wireless-tools source, then consult the Debian section below dealing with the Orinoco 802.11b Wireless card setup.

colo · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

JVC MP-XP7210 working perfectly. Really.
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Moebius · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

I use a HP Omnibook XE3.
Everything works fine except the "leep"-Mode-Key
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hank · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

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Chembook 2060E (Asus M6BNE) Running Gentoo 2005.0.
Software Suspend 2, Speedstep, ACPI Hardware Buttons all work.

tv · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

Acer TravelMate 290, with everything working (modem also not tested).
Gericom 1st Supersonic, everything worked until the ram+hd recently burned (due overheating).
ibook, fully working.