Installing Gentoo on a laptop (Thinkpad T22)

GrimReaper · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Leeds, UK

I'm planning to install Gentoo onto my laptop this weekend and I was wondering if anyone out there has any advice on things I should do when setting it up etc.

For example, I want the laptop to be able to change processor speed automatically when it's taken off the mains and onto battery power whilst powered on. (would I simply have to add APM/ACPI to the kernel or does this require more manual labour than simply adding a few things to the kernel?)

Also, I have a wifi nic card the Orinoco Silver. (I bought this specifically because I know there is Linux support for it)

Any advice is welcome.

Oh, also.. has anyone tried installing Gentoo with distcc?
My webserver is a P3 700 and I could install Gentoo inside a vmware virtual machine on my desktop pc (Athlon XP 3000+) to help speed up the compile times.

Thanks

Grim

snkmoorthy · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 376

Regarding APM/ACPI you need some work. Currently ACPID works, with there on scripts which you can customize. If you have CPU governors compiled, Look at

!db! · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

There are a bunch of threads on recent, as well as old, thinkpads that you can search for answers. I posted my recent setup choices for a T41 here. I choose built-in-kernel ACPI settings (2.6.7-r8) and battery/plug-in power management works well. No additional tweaking. Left APM out.