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Inssomniak · Post by **Inssomniak** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:24 pm

P3 500 mhz

Everything working, suspend to disk, suspend, APM, etc, no modem in my model.

can hotswap from the IDE cdrom/dvd to floppy, but not back again (hangs).

working on getting hotplug working, for the docking station, which I expect to be quite painful.

reaz82 · Post by **reaz82** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:28 pm

intel celeron 1.2 GHz

256 mb ram
20 gb hard drive
sis 630 chipset.

got everything running except for DRI support in X..

however, the laptop has a faulty graphix card and is out of commission

nuro · Post by **nuro** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:54 am

i have gentoo on a alienware area51m

its runs great. got everything working, sound, video. i have two video cards. i have the ati mobility 9700 and the nvidia geforce fx go 5700. the nvidia card performs alot better than the ati card. in glxgears i got a score of almost 4000+ with the nvidia card and with the ati card i got like 2500. NVIDIA rocks on linux

SMoo · Post by **SMoo** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:46 am

I've got 2 old Dell Latitude CPi A366XT laptops running Gentoo 2004. Every device works, including the Orinoco wifi card, and my gps device running gpsdrive.

PMT · Post by **PMT** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:11 am

I'm using a Thinkpad R51, with near-everything working, save three things.

1) Direct Rendering [stupid Radeon 7500], though I've heard varying reports of this, so YMMV.

2) Some of the ThinkPad Fn keys [the ones which do nothing software-based, IE: turn on the overhead light, work perfectly].

3) The three extra touchpad buttons [which I haven't bothered looking into].

Admittedly, the Intel IPW2200 card in here should be under this category, but since ndiswrapper .9-pre2 [and .7, but not .8, for some reason] works perfectly with the driver, I think I'll leave it out. =)

fadumpt · Post by **fadumpt** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:52 pm

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S501 running Gentoo (first time i've ever installed gentoo)

not everything works *yet*but i'm getting there at a nice pace.

So far everything that works is better then windows equivalent and easier to do then other distros.

acpi is working, just need to finish it, nvidia graphics work, sound, nic,
still need to get the card slots working, firewire, modem, CDRW i haven't tested but K3b is finishing its emerge as i type this, wireless i need to finish up (dlink card), need control of the fan, front panel buttons, etc...but i'm getting there like i said

Nuwanda · Post by **Nuwanda** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:43 pm

I have an IBM T20, P3.

Didnt have any problems installing...was a stage 1 install and the 3c59x drivers worked nicely for my ethernet card.

had some trouble with my display card (S3), but nothing a good search, a post and help from some of the guys on these forums (great ppl here!), cudnt solve.
Still have to sort the audio drivers (just installed gentoo, about 2 days back), but it doesnt seem to be a problem and im sure it'll go fine without any glitches.

Cheers!

deluxe · Post by **deluxe** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:17 am

Dell latitude c510

Celeron 1.2Ghz
256MB ram
20GB hd
chipset intel 830mp
video card ati radeon mobility m6 16MB
wireless card truemobile 1150

Works fine nothing special to submit.

lyric340 · Post by **lyric340** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:39 pm

I've got an IBM Thinkpad A21m, and everything works flawlessly.

The only thing I haven't tried is the modem, because to me it's useless anyways, but it came with onboard ethernet (3Com), a 10GB drive that I upgraded to a 30GB drive, and a CD-ROM that I upgraded to a CD-RW/DVD combo drive.

It's probably the best machine I've ever used, and I'm in the middle of migrating everything from my desktop to this since I never use my desktop anymore.

tomchuk · Post by **tomchuk** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:22 pm

thinkpad T40
Pentium M 1.6, 1024MB RAM

Working:
Intel gigabit - using e1000 kernel module
cisco aironet 350 miniPCI - using airo kernel module.
Intel 8x0 audio - using alsa's snd-intel8x0 and mixing using dmix
Radeon 9000M with h/w accel using DRI and radeon kernel module
Cardbus works using yenta-socket and pcmcia-cs
DVD/CD-RW combo drive working fine.
Vesa framebuffer at 1400x1050 using vga=834
Bluetooth works using regular 2.6 bluetooth modules, talks to my Nokia using gammu
modem - works great using slmodem
trackpad/point - using psmouse and evdev
trackpoint - nothing special just using it as a 3 button mouse, but scrolling ability available with tp-scroll
trackpad - scroll, back/forward, tapping using the synaptics driver
back/forward keys mapped to alt+L and alt+R using xhkeys
Access IBM button mapped using tpb to open an aterm
Volume buttons, display brightness and thinkLight work though BIOS
Fn+{F3,F4,F7,F12} work when using APM
Speedstep using 2.6 kernel cpufreq and speedfreqd
hibernate using swsusp2 kernel patches
IRDA transfers at FIR speeds

Not Working:
ACPI standby, mem, disk
Full-speed IRDA transfers
s-video using DRI (works using ati-drivers)

lspci output:

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b

Ox53746F6E65 · Post by **Ox53746F6E65** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:16 pm

somebody got a working asus M6800?

im interested to bye one...

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:10 pm

Dell Latitude X200
P3 933, 640MB RAM

Working:
Framebuffer
Audio (mostly...)
Speedstep
ACPI (in general)
Volume keys
Daft extra "i" button
Touchpad works *much* better than in Windows

Firewire CD-RW/DVD-ROM - burns okay, haven't tried DVD playback yet
Wireless & wired networking
PCMCIA
Everything else

Broken under current kernel:
snd-intel8x0 doesn't load cleanly without loading snd-intal8x0m first
Brightness keys hardlock the machine instantly
Direct rendering seems to be not working
I had all these three working fine before I upgraded - it's on a 2.6.7 atm, it'll get upgraded again in a while. All the 2.6.8's I tried were total disasters though - panicking everywhere

Someday I shall make suspend work. I don't have a spare partition for pmdisk or anything, and it seems swsusp2 is the way to go. Unfortunately I haven't found a kernel that it wants to patch against yet & work.

Oh, and vesafb-tng seems to be totally rooted on this machine. Further investigation when 2.6.9's out probably...

Yoda_Oz · Post by **Yoda_Oz** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:16 am

DELL INSPIRON 5150 dual booting with WinXP. Everything working except for the mouse touchpad... but i was just reading that that has been fixed now YAY! so off i go to fix it... its just the mouse scrolling using the side of the touchpad which i couldnt get to work...

i even got my wireless card that is not supposed to be supported working.

asph · Post by **asph** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:04 am

i have a brand new acer travelmate 370 series, and installed gentoo in it last week.

pentium m 1,5ghz, 512 ddr ram, 40gb hd, wireless

all works perfectly, even the intel wireless card!

marowizard · Post by **marowizard** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:55 pm

I have gentoo working on a hp pavillion ze 4409ea

2004.2 kernel 2.6.8

all works fine

tchak · Post by **tchak** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:45 am

Asus D1 (berbone)
Gentoo 2004.2 kernel 2.6.8.1 works prety well exept the fact I have no glx... I dont play games (exept tetris and brakout

) so this not anoyng my too much. Xinerama works well.
The memory card reader dont works.
Modem have not try but I think it shuld work.
P4 2.4GHz
video Sis M650 (no dri suport)
512 Korsair xms ddr
60Go TravelStar7200tr/mn
external firewier CDRW/DVD

scooterphish · Post by **scooterphish** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:47 am

Kernel 2.6.8.1. Even the Atheros WiFi works by way of Madwifi patched for 2.6.8 kernel.
No DRI, is okay cuz I'm not a huge diehard game player that needs DRI/DRM etc.
Still futzing with ACPI but that's not a huge issue because the thing's usually plugged in to a wall socket anyway.

The only thing that I can't working is sound.
lspci output:

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cab3 (rev 05)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4345 (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audi
o Controller
0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 443
7
0000:02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg 
NIC (rev 01)
0000:02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controlle
r (rev 02)
0000:02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C
/8139C+ (rev 10)

dmesg reports no sound card found:

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ATI IXP AC97 controller: probe of 0000:00:14.5 failed with error -13
ALSA device list:
  No soundcards found.

I thought I read somewhere that in order for sound to work, the modem had to be disabled/module unloaded, but I found it while searching for something completely unrelated and can't find it now (links in that direction, pointers, suggestions, anybody?)

bd · Post by bd » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:14 pm

Working fine on iBook G3 500Mhz!

NewBlackDak · Post by **NewBlackDak** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:21 pm

More to report:
Got my frankensteined Dell CPi M233XT 192MB Ram
By frankensteined I mean I found a 300MHz MMC1 pulled from a dead 380Z, and it has a CPi-A video daughterboard in it. That took it up to a NeoMagic256 which can play DVD's with hardware acceleration. It's a decent machine.

Apple PowerBook G3(Pismo) 500MHz 768MB Ram
Just finished the install a few hours ago, and it's working fine. I have a TI acx111 54g card that I'm going to go try here in a few minutes. We'll see how that goes.

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:49 am

Update to mine: B0rked machine totally by powering off in the middle of some heavy hdd activity (where's that dumb mistakes thread gone?). This led to random errors which have been fixed by a total rebuild.

At the moment it's using a heavily customised 2.6.9 kernel that actually seems to be working okay.
All that's really left to work on is testing the brightness keys - not brave enough atm

Plus I need to check k3b works and have a go at DVD playback.
And I've spotted an issue involving closing root shells in X. That one's pretty random so far - time will tell I think.

nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:47 am

I have a fully working IBM Thinkpad T40, modem wifi everything.

Corpse2 · Post by **Corpse2** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:50 am

I had it working here (back with windows atm

) on a Jewel Saffier 1440 (www.jewelnotebooks.nl).

sis650 chipset (and videocard)
sis900 network
sis7012 sound

never tried to get the modem working (smartlink)
also never tried the firewire connection, since I don't have any hardware for that.

touchpad: could only move the mouse, tapping didn't work.
Why is something basic like that still missing from the kernel? (I know there is a synaptics driver, but never got it working)

n3mo · Post by **n3mo** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:59 am

Compaq evo n800c I've setup all except funcion keys, all works well with gentoo-dev-sources.

scooterphish · Post by **scooterphish** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:59 pm

Just thought I should update my own post, as things have improved greatly and my experience might be helpful to someone who obtains one of these models of the Satellite series laptops...

scooterphish wrote:Kernel 2.6.8.1. Even the Atheros WiFi works by way of Madwifi patched for 2.6.8 kernel.
No DRI, is okay cuz I'm not a huge diehard game player that needs DRI/DRM etc.

Emerged Xorg v6.8. DRI/DRM is now a reality

Still futzing with ACPI but that's not a huge issue because the thing's usually plugged in to a wall socket anyway.

Really seems to be a non-issue, as the fan appears to adjust itself according to temp and acpi reports whether plugged in or on battery and percentage left, etc

The only thing that I can't working is sound.
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dmesg reports no sound card found:
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ATI IXP AC97 controller: probe of 0000:00:14.5 failed with error -13
ALSA device list:
  No soundcards found.
I thought I read somewhere that in order for sound to work, the modem had to be disabled/module unloaded, but I found it while searching for something completely unrelated and can't find it now (links in that direction, pointers, suggestions, anybody?)

Emerged and compiled mm-sources (which includes two options for the ATIIXP chipset: one for the modem and one for the sound card; 'normal' gentoo 2.6.8 sources don't have them separated) and followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide.

Finally, a reason to emerge BZFlag, Xine, BeepMP and break out the MP3 and DVDs.
I am one happy geek.

Search the forums. The answers are there. You're usually NOT the first one to have the same problem. Searching before asking led me to find point 2, which solved my sound problem
Ya don't always have to stick with the gentoo/dev/vanilla kernel sources. Experiment. If one kernel doesn't boot, boot in to one that does and experiment some more. That's what grub/Lilo is for. You didn't start using Gentoo Linux because it was unchallenging and boring, did you?
RTFGD (Read The Freakin' Gentoo Documentation). I did just what the ALSA Guide said and it worked, just like it said.
RTFM
RTFM

isaidi · Post by **isaidi** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:02 pm

Acer Aspire 2001WLCi
Centinro 1.4Ghz
15.4 WXGA
Radeon 9200

- 4-in-1 card reading : scsi_mod, sd_mod, usb_storage
- Sound: works fine with intel the AC97 module
- Ethernet: 8139too
- Wifi: emerge net-wireless/ ipw2100
- Video: use Frame Buffer with Radeon to get 1280x800 Console res, X works fine with Radeon drivers

ACPCI is detected fine.. however, i am still working on configuring it properly. It seems to go to suspend, but then immediatly wakes up again... somthing is not configured properly.. can't comment much on this

Haven't tested much else.. still have to try, Firewire, IrDA, and PCMCIA.. lspci shows they are detected.. just haven't used them yet...

How Many Fully Working Gentoo Notebooks...

Hp omnibook 4150b

Working notebook

Asus D1

Toshiba Satellite A65-S126

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