How Many Fully Working Gentoo Notebooks...

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Got everything working on my ASUS M2 Notebook including the winmodem.
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k-dub · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 67 Location: Frederick, CO

I've got a 1.2 GHz P3 Dell Inspiron 8100 with the 64MB ATi Radeon 7500 M graphics card. I've got everything working wonderfully except the 3Com modem and the Firewire port (never tried). The only catch is that I can't upgrade XFree86 to 4.3 - I get a "driver version mismatch" error. If only I hadn't bought that D-Link DWL-AG650 wireless card, I would be in heaven.

Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

I've had it running perfectly fine on a Dell Inspiron 3800, as well as an Inspiron 5500. The 5500 at the time required some patches for the network card to work, but I think it's in the kernel now (don't have that Laptop anymore unfortunately). I remember having a lot of issues at the time with an IBM laptop that had an ALi chipset (forgot the model), but that was about 8 months ago. Driver support must have also gotten better for that since then.

asph · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject: hp

i had a hp omnibook 5700ctx running gentoo 1.2
now it's broken :/ but well, it was kinda old
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Sequentious · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

mvc · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

i'm using gentoo on a toshiba sattelite pro 4340. Everything works (usb,sound,modem,pcmcia,infrared,hibernation,mouse, ...).

marco

Douwedabbert · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Netherlands

I have almost everything working on my Maxdata3100X notebook (P4,sis650).
I didn't have a chance to test the PCMCIA, IRDA and Firewire, but modules loaded correctly so I don't expect big problems here.

I'm now trying kernel 2.6-test4. Everything's ok except for the modem.

it's a pleasant surptise, Gentoo works even better then on my VIA800EPIA desktop.

regards,

Douwedabbert

Sionnach · n00b Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 20 Location: Ireland

HP Omnibook XE2 (Celeron 433Mhz) working just fine here. Did a practice on it before I did my main system and it worked off the bat.

lx90 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 1

iBook2 Loves Gentoo ... This way U have the power of the PPC architecture, all support and mac functions and buttons working nicely, with a very good notebook (added 512M to the initial 12" iBook original specifications - total 640Mb), at a very good price and until today i have nothing to complain about it. Both Gentoo-PPC team work (Nice Work guys! and thanks for the IRC patiance of all the Op's) and the hardware.

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : 750FX
temperature : 36-38 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 700MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 7000 0202)
bogomips : 1389.36
machine : PowerBook4,3
motherboard : PowerBook4,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
board revision : 00000000
detected as : 257 (iBook 2 rev. 2)
pmac flags : 0000000b
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 640MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld

ps: just for the record with more than one year the first 1.2-rcXX realease is now a strong rock solid updated system :> in ~ppc build.

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

Dell 4150
32mb Radeon M7
1150 Wireless
3com modem
UXGA screen
WinModem

Everything working except winmodem which would work with a kernel compiled w/o preemptive option, but I don't need it. Have installed several distros on it without a hitch.

barmalini · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:05 am Post subject:

hamster · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Finland

Hp Omnibook XE4100

Works just fine. (Haven't tested the modem thoug).

Cel 1.13GHz
128MB Ram
20GB Hd
S3Savage video
via sound
8xDVD
Gentoo 1.4

daha · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Helsinki/EU

Im thinking to buy Dell Inspiron 1100.
Does it have any compatibility problems with gentoo?

sputnik1969 · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:15 am Post subject:

I've got a fully working Gentoo 1.4 on my IBM Thinkpad 760XL (P166MMX/48MB EDO/2,1 GB HD/ESS-Soundchip/3com-PCMCIA-Network/33k-Modem), but it needs a Vesa-Bios-Extender (started with DOS) 'cause the Trident GFX-Chip doesn't work correct with the Trident-Framebuffer and XFree86 newer than 3.3.6. But it runs much smoother now (I've used a SuSE 7.3 on it before, which was much slower).
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zengeek · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject:

I got my HP Omnibook 6000 working fine...

ATI Rage Mobility P/M Video
CDR
Netgear 401 Wireless
built in network
maestro ess 3 sound

having just made the switch from Red Hat...I'm very very happy with everything

BigBear · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 6

Installed on IBM Thinkpad T20. Just be aware to disable the ACPI function or the LAN card won't work.

ChopChopMasterOnion · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: North Texas

I have one of each, both are fully functional.
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Rroet · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

I'm running Linux on a Gericom Webshox 1101 or 1105 (can't exactly remember)..

it's working completely.

I had some issues installing the slrm winmodem, but that's working now as well. FIR / IRDA both work, sis900 nic works, sis630 video works (with some HEAVY modifications.) I3331e94 works as well

that's about it. The only thing that does not and will not work is the propriety special MP3 player on the front of the box. it runs directly to a Fat formatted D: drive and reads mp3 off of that.(it has to be configured with windows software to do so)..
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BurnedOutGeek · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 27

I have an IBM Thinkpad a31p and an a30p. Both run Gentoo like they were born to do it.

Mark

seltrus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 102

i had a fully working ibm a21m, but now i have a fully working ibm r40. beautiful box, i think.

JoaoRafael · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I have a Sony en tested it with 2.6GRV-670 with:

P4 2.6 - 512 MB

2.6 kernel
ACPI
SonyPI (control screen brightness and other things)
ALSA sound (intel8x0)
Magic Gate (usb-storage)
Synaptics Touchpad
ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility (ati-driver)
CDRW/DVD-ROM - Cannot play Music CDs. CDRW was working with 2.4 kernel, but I haven't tested it with 2.6.
Winmodem - The proprietary driver (HSF modem, I think), does not work with preemtible kernel, it seems....

JoaoRafael · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I have a Sony en tested it with 2.6GRV-670 with:

P4 2.6 - 512 MB

2.6 kernel
ACPI
SonyPI (control screen brightness and other things)
ALSA sound (intel8x0)
Magic Gate (usb-storage)
Synaptics Touchpad
ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility (ati-driver)
CDRW/DVD-ROM - Cannot play Music CDs. CDRW was working with 2.4 kernel, but I haven't tested it with 2.6.
Winmodem - The proprietary driver (HSF modem, I think), does not work with preemtible kernel, it seems....

Iron_Mike · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 83

ttx Intel P4 1.8Ghz
everything is fine for now

paolo · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 768 Location: SBT (AP)

Toshiba Satellite 2410: everything works but I haven't tried SD reader (dunno), firewire (it should works) and hibernation/supend.

Paolo
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My_World · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject:

Proline 3800 Laptop
384Mb Ram, Celeron 1100Mhz, etc, etc, running Gentoo only.
Everything worked witht the least bit of effort, USB modem going, USB digicam, everything going 100%

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