Gentoo on a Fujitsu LifeBook P7010

saggating · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 25

Guy's.

Could I please ask you all for some advice. I'm considering investing some hard earned strerling on a Fujitsu LifeBook P7010 . I like the portabailty of it and the Screen seems to be getting good reviews.

I look after a number of web applications and I'm looking for a machine which I can carry around with me to:

Check Email,
SSH to Hosted sites,
Lite web Development,
Web surfing,
Document wriiting and Reading
and also IM.

I would prefer to do the above in a Gentoo environment rather thant XP pro. Do any of you have any knowledge of running gentoo on this thing.

Also as a side issue I also want to use the Merlin U530 UMTS PCMCIA card as well.

I will be gratefull for any advice you can provide.

Regards

Saggating :wink:

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Raffi · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 731 Location: Moscow, Id.

I recently setup a lifebook for someone at work. Don't remember the model number at the moment, but I was able to get most things working in gentoo. The stuff you have listed should not be a problem.

Not sure what the merlin U530 card is, but if it is anything like the sprint merlin card, it should work fine as well.

saggating · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 25

Raffi,

Thanks for your reply.

Fyi, The the merlin U530 card is a UMTS/GPRS card will enable mobile internet
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Raffi · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 731 Location: Moscow, Id.

I figured it was a cell net card, I just have never seen that particular module before. I have used a couple of them and gotten them to work, so I think you should have a short at making that one work.

strerror · Retired Dev Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 24

I am about to buy one of these and it will be running Gentoo. I will let you know how I go with it.

amphibious · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:03 am Post subject:

I'm about to buy one of these too... do some google searching. Seems like a lot of people have gotten everything to work well except the scroll thingy and the finger print scanner.
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albright · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: p7010 small problems

Hi. I just got a p7010A (centrino that is). Pretty much everything works (wide screen,
dri, wireless, usb, cpufreq and speedstep, suspend to ram and to disk).

A couple of problems I've had. First, the synaptics driver is a real pita. If I
load and unload the uhci-hcd and psmouse modules a few times then
the touchpad works with the synaptics driver. But I can't figure out how
to make it work consistently and without manual intervention (the
touchpad works fine "out of the box" but the synaptics driver provides
a lot of extra features).

Second, I can't suspend to disk directly from X (kde). If I open a second virtual
terminal and suspend from there then I can get back to the X session just
fine (with alt-ctrl-F7) after the machines wakes up (it wakes up in the text
terminal of course). Anyone know a fix for this or a way to script switching
to a another terminal and issuing the 'hibernate' command?

Anyway, after suspend to disk, dri is gone. If I run, say, glxgears I get a message
with something like i830irqwait in it and the gears are locked up.

Which is funny, since I use the i915 driver in order to get the wide screen. Anyone
got a fix?

But it's a great little computer