Centrino-based laptop

madmanuk · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 63 Location: England

I have:

1.5GHz Intel Centrino
512MB RAM
60gig HDD
Radeon 9000 Mobility 64MB
Integrated Sound (AC97 crap i think)
Synaptic touchpad

Has anyone got 2.6kernel Gentoo running successfully on a similar system. And does anyone have a working Synaptic touchpad in linux ? Thanks.
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eee · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

The 2.6 kernel runs quite nice on Pentium-M processors - even works well for changing the cpufreq for conserving power. I've been running 2.6 for several months now (since the first pre-release was made available) without problems. It's nice.

I've got the Dell 600m, which is similar in specs to what you've got, except that the touchpad is an ALPS/Glidepoint so I can't vouch for the synaptic driver in 2.6. The 600m does have a Radeon 9000, and the kernel's DRM work very nicely (no need for xfree-drm module).

All in all, you should have no problem running 2.6. Have fun!

madmanuk · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 63 Location: England

Thank you for the swift response. I'll get installing right away.
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Wishmaster · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject:

Hi,

my Centrino notebook works well with Kernel 2.6.x, but i'm missing acpi battery status (this will be fixed with new Kernel versions, i hope) and no 3D accelaration with my ati 9600 pro/xt

But frequency scaling works great for me with speedfreq in dynamic mode.

My Specs:
- Pentium M 1,7
- Ati 9600 pro/xt
- 1 GB Ram
- WSXGA Display (1920x1200)
- .....

Bye,
Wishmaster

jetblack · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:34 pm Post subject:

My Synaptic touchpad works fine with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Check this thread for a ton of detail about setting up a similar system (including touchpad, and the Radeon 9000 Mobility 64 MB).