I recently bought a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L 7310 MCN laptop because it was so cheap.
I've just started a stage 1 and I'm planning on writing down the progress overhere so maybe someone can make use of it. I also expect to encounter some difficulties
.Hardware
--- lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 0 01a (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 0 1)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT82 3x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8 237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Contro ller (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02)
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--- /etc/make.conf
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
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--- install CD USB error
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ.
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 5, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 6, error -110
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 7, error -110
Started at 16:00 and ended at 18:20 without errors.
Stage 2
Started at 18:22 after switching to:
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CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"
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--- /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer"
Xorg-X11
I unmasked Xorg-7 and the emerge went fine although I can only use "driver=vesa" and I can not set the monitor resolution to 1280x800. I tried to use KDE but it sets the resolution to something like 1600x ... and becomes totally unusable ... If I try to use the KDE control centre to switch to 1024x768, KDE crashes.
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02) ...
The Synaptics pad works fine though.
Added 04-08-2006:
It turned out that all of the buggy ACPI BIOS related problems are gone by simply adding:
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irqpoll
I now have a fully working Amilo 7310 L laptop running Gentoo 2006.0 stage 1 with stable Xorg-7 (1280x800 through ModeLines + "via" driver). I am using madwifi-ng and wpa_supplicant and they work fine. The Synaptics touchpad works fine along with my USB mouse. Sound is working too and glxgears reports 700 fps!