Gentoo on lattitude LS

Boston · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Ireland

Hello I'm trying to install Gentoo on a latitude LS for the purposes of a torrent box. For starters I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm trying to get X working(so the install went ok) and I had to edit a config file to select my display time, however the video hardware seems to be generic so I don't know what to do. I type start X and i get some over sized and ugly consoles. I don't even know if I have a problem I just want to know how to make it usable.

Important Hardware

Cpu : Pentium III 500 MHz

Ram : 128 MB

Hard Drive : IBM

Display : 12.1" Active Matrix (800x600x24 max)

Video : 2.5 MB NeoMagic256

Audio : 2.5 MB NeoMagic256

Network : Built-in 3Com 3c905C 10/100 and Lucent winmodem
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Seron · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

I have a Dell Latitude LS (model PP01S) very similar to yours running Gentoo as a home server. To enable the touchpad and video driver I have these lines in /etc/make.conf

Boston · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Ireland

basically I had to default Xorg.conf file in use, tried to change a few display settings and it stopped running. If you could post up a copy of your Xorg.conf file that would be great. Can I just copy this? http://www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/XF86Config.txt?

I installed flux box as my default environment/gui as well, so I'll probably have a few questions once I start messing about with configuring it.

What I want to do
Set up an secure ssh server so I can access files on my home network remotely
Set up a remote network month point, for my Nas
Set up a Bit torrent Client
Finally any Firewall applications needed

Thanks for the link and code

Seron · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:20 am Post subject:

You could try it but it seems it is before X.org's time. It might still work but the config file in xorg is called xorg.conf. I would suggest that you follow the gentoo documentation for setting up X. Here's my xorg.conf:

Boston · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Ireland

Thank you. I will try it out and let you know how I got on. I had read the configuration guide, the problem was with trying to find out what I should enter. I read too much rather then too little and ended up putting alot of conflicting stuff in the config file. I notice you haven't specified the resolution in your conf file, or am i missing soemthing?

Thanks again

Seron · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

I noticed that too now that you mentioned it. It still works at native resolution 800x600. I think I used the command

Boston · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Ireland

can you not get a higher res then that? 1024 * 764 ? I'm unsure what I had in windows, but other sites seem to indicate you can. If you can't, they may be anotehr reason I failed to get Xorg working as i was trying for that res.