How Many Fully Working Gentoo Notebooks...

dirtboy · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:22 am Post subject:

Pro-Star 8854

Everything I need works, even the extra buttons, video capture, mp3 player, dvd/cdrw, internal network, sound, etc.. Never cared to try the modem. Broadband spoils you.

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:24 am Post subject:

Sony Vaio Z1SP http://www.vaio.sony-europe.com/professional/de/notebooks/z1sp.html. Nearly everything works perfect (except for the centrino wlan card). i also got the speedstep technology working.

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Beaker · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Raleigh, NC

Compaq Presario 1200. So far everything works (don't know about the modem, serial port, or parallel port - haven't had any use for them yet).

christsong84 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 5:48 am Post subject:

so far...here's my work in progress of how I got my laptop to work...
http://www.thecodemonks.com/linux/
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snakattak3 · Guru Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 468 Location: Seattle

You guys can't beat my Sony Vaio 266 Pentium-mmx

Everything on it works perfectly with gentoo (well, the battery has been drained since i got it, and can't hold a charge. But thats not gentoos fault).
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Cuardin · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 8:17 am Post subject:

ECS desknotes work very well. Unfortunately, they come with WinModems, and never got that quite thumping, but then I never needed it, so I never gave it a fair try.

moritz_aut · n00b Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 6

ibm x30 ... works without any problems, only the install from the usb-cdrom was a bit difficult

DiD@SyN · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Switzerland

Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E7110 with Bluetooth, everything works fine
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taylorad · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 28

Running Gentoo and LFS on my Toshiba 5005-S507. I wanted to note that it took almost 18 months of work with Redhat, Mandrake, and Debian. My laptop routes IRQ through an ACPI BIOS and severly dislikes the ACPI drivers.

However, I stuck the Gentoo CD in, reloaded the correct network driver, and I was off and running.

brlewis · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject:

I've a Toshiba 3005 S303. Everything on this laptop is working flawlessly with exception of the Intel 537 modem (support expected summer 2003). I even employ an external monitor and do 2048x764 with the nVidia TwinView features. It is wonderful.

And I just purchased a new hp pavilion ze4430us. I've not looked at the modem yet, but everything else is working with Gentoo. I'm looking in to how to get dual monitor support from this one (ATI radeon video).

I've tried working with SuSE, Mandrake, and Slackware on the Toshiba laptop. Slackware was my favorite until I found Gentoo. Support for the Toshiba with Slackware and Mandrake was exceptional, but nothing compares to Gentoo. Maybe soon I may look at what Zynot are doing with their Gentoo fork.
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dantrevino · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject: thinkpad 390x

Its a couple years old, but its working great running Gentoo.
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Daganoth · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 4:12 pm Post subject:

Fujistu S2010. Everything, well everything I care about, works perfectly, CPUfreq scaling, ACPI, PCMIA, Wifi, etc. I think I have a winmodem....but who uses a modem anymore?

j/k.

There are some generic quick buttons that I have not quite figured out yet, but that's a minor problem. Also, I have heard some skeptism about the 3d acceleration support for the ATI Radeon IGP chipset, although the kernel driver works fine for 2d applications.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Gentoo is running fine on an old Dell Inspiron 5000e except for keyboard bounce and drop errors that cause my sentences "to look like thhis wen I'm typingg, especially involvin the letters g and h."

Also, I have not tried my modem with this laptop.

Powerhungry · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Connecticut

My first post!

I have Gentoo installed on a Thinkpad T22, 1400x1050 display, audio, everything I tried to get working works wonderfully. I havent tried to get the buttons or the winmodem to work, but I know that they will from the software I can find on the portage tree (buttons) or IBM's web site (win modem!)

wizbit · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 7 Location: England

I've got gentoo working on my Toshiba Satellite 1900-303. Works a treat especially now that I've switched from KDE to pekwm as my windowmanager.

Haven't tried the modem yet as I want to try and improve the screen resolution from 1024x768 to something higher if I can

crevetor · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 13

Gentoo works fine on my Dell Inspiron 8500 thanks to www.linux-on-laptops.com.
I didn't test PCMCIA, minipci, firewire. everything else works...
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sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject:

Tecra 8000\366MHz\128MB RAM. Everything perfect except the modem (it's disabled in the BIOS though 'cos I don't need it so it's unlikely it'd work). I keep a second HD for the 600MHz model with XP on it for work.

Tecra 8100\600MHz\512MB RAM. Everything 'cept the modem again.

Neither build too problematic though there are always a few funnies to keep you occupied. Generally configuration rather than compilation related.

Once it's on, never a crash, never a problem (unless I bugger something up).
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qubex · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject:

Mine is a Micron Millenia Transport, P120, 48M ram and a 1.4 G harddrive. I've got an old 16bit Netgear FA411 in there, and it runs great - granted it takes 30 seconds to load X but I can browse the web very quickly using Opera with statically linked libraries. I have not bothered with a framebuffer, as it did not work right off and X works fine with the SVGA driver.. It hits cache so much I can't imagine that a fb would speed things up by all that much..

I have not tried the SVGA out on the side, but the monitor out works fine.

Does anyone have a battery for one of these old beasts? I've looked around and the cheapest I could find was $200!! Not even worth it for how old this beast is.

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pYrania · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject:

Got everything working on my BRANDY-Lite...

Specifications
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Valorin · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

My gentoo installation on my Thinkpad T30 was near effortless, and everything I've tried works. I haven't tried the parralel port, the serial port and the modem. But I don't anticipate any problems with either of the first two. I heartily recommend an IBM Thinkpad.

yjr · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: switzerland

just an advice stay away from hp and compaq they're from my experience crappy notebook with strange hardware, poor battery life(hp), bad screen connection(compaq) etc...

kitano · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:18 pm Post subject:

Dell Inspiron 4000. Not the shiniest and newest laptop, but everything but the tv-out is working.
no acpi, despite of bios-update, but apm is good enaough for me...
wish u much luck with ya new laptop,

kitano
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axxackall · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:49 pm Post subject:

I've installed Gentoo on Apple Powerbook G3 500 Mhz (Firewire) with 256 MB of RAM on 7GB partition. All works fast and stable. It's some better (fatser and less broken deps) than YDL that was on the same partition before. It's much more stable than MacOS9 I had there on the other partition. And it much faster than OSX I have on that second partition now.

I think that Gentoo on Powerbook is a very great combination - they are just like designed for each other

MarkG · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:03 pm Post subject:

Another Dell Inspiron 4000, I did have everything (almost) working until I reinstalled

Things I never got sorted:

But thats close to fully working

Currently it's a mess cant suspend and resume and have any hope of normal network operation afterwards, it also Hangs on shutdown and if it doesn't shutdown it doesn't power off. I'm thinking about reinstalling again.

EDIT The problem is the FA510 seems to be erratic when used with the i8236, cb_enabler, tulip_cb modules but works fine if you enable card bus in the kernel and use the yenta_socket and tulip modules.
So nothing wrong with the laptop just the network card.

matthew · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject: HP laptop

I've got my HP Pavilion ze4315 working pretty well with Gentoo and WinXP, and with different configuration profiles under Gentoo by using QuickSwitch. I managed to get the video working OK (it's a ATI IGP340M, but it's not accelerated), and the PCMCIA stuff all goes well , haven't tried the firewire or modem yet, but the DVD/CDRW worked like a dream.

So far I've been quite impressed with this laptop and Linux.