How Many Fully Working Gentoo Notebooks...

GurliGebis · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

Gentoo works fine on this Acer Travelmate 273XV.
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jobeus · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 52

Though I wouldn't recommend getting one, it's fully working on Linux too.

xentric · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 410 Location: Netherlands

Dell Latitude CP M233XT - Pentium-MMX 233Mhz, 96Mb RAM, 20Gb HD
Compaq Armada 4120 - Pentium 120Mhz, 32Mb RAM, 3Gb HD

The only thing that doesn't work is the compaq's 800x600 DSTN screen which
has to run in a hacked mode of 800x570 because of garbled pixel mess on the
bottom of the screen

Pcmcia, usb and sound are all working properly...

BradB · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:15 am Post subject:

Toshiba Satellite 2410 - almost everything works flawlessly. Check here for more https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=64142&highlight=

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rliberoff · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Venezuela

Have a Sony Vaio FX-210. Everything working (even the winmodem)except the jogdial of the touchpad.

wrs4 · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

Speaking of drained batteries and Sony Vaios...

anybody know where to get working replacement batteries for a PCG-505GX? (which I had Red Hat running on nicely til the battery dropped its ability to hold a charge and the hdd went flaky)

punkisdead · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 9

Finally got my HP ze4315 working fully, including acpi, pcmcia, but no 3d support for the ati igp320m.

SeJo · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:21 am Post subject:

My Acer Aspire 1203 XV
p3 1300 celeron
376 MB RAM
20 gig disk

runs great already for 1 year, only prob is the powerbutton, since my last upgrade it doesn't turn itself off anymore

alo i hate the S3 ProSavage4 chipset (louse graphics)...

max resolution is 1024x768 and that is not much to bad he...

neway next one is gunna be a powerbook (mac)

greets
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piquadrat · Guru Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 301 Location: Switzerland

IBM R32 here, everything I need works. I heared there are some Winmodem drivers aviable since a few weeks, but I never bothered to try them.
I had a few hassles with ACPI because of a buggy BIOS, but I think that has been corrected sinde the 2.08 BIOS...
What I really never got working well was the RADEON 7000...

arnbak · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Denmark

Works fine on my Acer Aspire 1302X

The powernow won't work whith the gentoo kernel though.

d3c3it · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject:

ive got a toshiba satellite 1800-354S, everything working bar tvout and winmodem
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neumax · n00b Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 43

I am working with a Dell CP M233XT.
Its quite old, but still one my favorites

Gentoo is running great on it!

WarpFlyght · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Atlanta, GA

Just began work on getting my Dell Latitude C600 (P3 750MHz, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD, 1024x768 LCD) fully functional under Gentoo two days ago.

I'm far from finished, but so far I have the display working just fine under VESA FB and X (running X through the framebuffer for now -- gonna go into the ATi drivers later for graphics acceleration if I need it), sound is great, networking is great, all of the basic input devices (keyboard, trackpad, tracking stick, ps/2 port on back) function wonderfully, and I'm tackling new devices and functions by the hour.

Next up: APM, including suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-RAM. I'm aware of working installations of these functions on the same model laptop under Debian and Mandrake, so it shouldn't be a big deal. I am using i8kutils (available in portage, also available at http://people.debian.org/~dz//i8k/ based on the same source as the win32 app i8kfangui at http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html) to control the machine's two cooling fans and to monitor CPU temperatures.

The only device I plan to leave alone for now is the winmodem. I might go after it when everything is said and done, but I doubt I'll have any luck. I rely exclusively on ethernet with the exception of one or two days out of the year spent out of town, so it's not a big deal.

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ has been a good friend.
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clumsyninja · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 61 Location: North Texas

/me hugs his dell inspiron 4000
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torradan · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

Everything on my Compaq Presario 1600T works like a charm, sans the internal winmodem, since I have no need for it.

Even got my Belkin pcmcia wireless card working with no problems.
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mrljt · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Seattle

I had Gentoo fully working on a HP ze1110. The modem was flaky, but I never used it. I have a webpage for putting Linux on the ze1110 on http://bumbox.net/linuxlaptop/

I now have Gentoo on a custom HP ze4200 and everything works great (even WiFi with WEP) except maybe the modem because I never use it so I don't know if it works or not. I'll eventually put a web page for this.

gnoodle · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 6:09 am Post subject:

i have gentoo installed and working on a "thinkpad i1412" and a "sony vaio pcg-srx77"

the thinkpad was a straightforward install, with no real surprises.

the vaio, however, has always been tempermental...depending on the particular distro and version number. (this is due to the bespoke hardware in the srx77... i.e., acpi, magicgate, etc.) installing gentoo was no different.

but once i compiled the kernel (with necessary modifications to the kernel's usb storage driver to properly detect the magicgate slot) everything was fine.

all the hardware is working on the vaio -- ethernet, wireless, touchpad, usb, magicgate, jog dial, etc. (actually, since i don't use the modem i haven't bothered to check / configure them...but i have gotten it to work under other distros / kernel versions. ) and i have a fully functioning x window environment with the latest fluxbox, gnome, and kde all booting via gdm and providing beautiful sound via alsa.

the sony vaio pcg-srx77 is a nice piece of kit as laptops go. if anybody needs help installing / configuring gentoo for it, feel free to drop me a line.
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mrpingouin::bd · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 5

HP XE4500 fully working , too

However, the CDripping/writing makes me freeze sometimes.
USB doesn't cause any problem since I've compiled it builtin.
My winmodem works, but not with the gentoo (preemptible)
kernel, so I use an external modem when I need.
ACPI works well.
I play tuxracer with the DRI activated

and listens to music
with ALSA which works again (ebuild problems sooner).
I haven't test throttling yet, cause I've some fan problems now,
but it isn't a software problem, looks like a cleaning need ...

Bye, and good luck for new laptop installs.
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auXesis_ · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

I run Gentoo on my Acer Extensa 710T (PII 233Mhz, 64mb ram, 3.1gb hdd) and it works like a breeze in the console, although X chews up my ram like there is no tomorrow.

I use to run Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 365 but it was slow as hell.

NB. Don't try to install Gentoo on a laptop without a pcmcia or on board NIC - it can turn into a very time consuming exercise.

dambacher · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject: dell inspiron 5100

I run gentoo on an dell inspiron 5100
The internal truemobile 1180 is the only thing that definitely does not work here. other thinks:
http://www-wbk.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~dambach/dell-inspiron5100/linux-on-dell-inspiron-5100.html

tomga · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 68

runs fine on a dell inspiron 4000

Snakebite · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 3

I've an IBM x30 and even my wireless lan on board is working.
Gentoo is perfect for an Notebook because through the emerge technique you get a system which is fast and battery saving (uptime 5h )

Garbz · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 10:19 am Post subject:

runs on an inspiron 4100 including the i8k kernel support for fan control, sound control, and the extra function keys, just emerge i8kutils.

Still working oh hotwapping bays, each individual thing works but i can't start a floopy if i didn't boot the system with it in.
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bluz · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 61 Location: Canada

I've had amazing luck with a Toshiba Satellite 2410.. very nice laptop.. 15" screen, 1.8Mhz P4, 64Mb Nvidia, DVD, CDBurn, etc..

There are great resources on the web to support everything in the laptop.. the only problem I've had is some oddness with the IR Port.. sometimes it just won't work - probably my config tho. One drawback of this laptop is it has ONLY USB ports.. so serial and Parallel is out.

If your looking at older laptops, the best one I've used is the IBM Thinkpad 600e... works great on all linux's.

GOod luck.

bluz · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 61 Location: Canada

DON'T get a consumer version of the Compaq laptops... they just DON'T work with any OS other than Winblows...

Horrible horrible peices of s#%!