How Many Fully Working Gentoo Notebooks...

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phish · Post by **phish** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:29 am

Wow, I've been waiting a long time to post to this thread.
Finally I can.

My laptop is an acer aspire 1681WLMi

I'm using the 2.6.11-gentoo sources

Intel Centrino 1.5GHz

I fixed the ACPI DSDT and ECDT by reading instructions on these forums, so
the battery meter and ac status work now.

The throttling or speedstepping or wtf it's called seems to work, but I've not played with it a lot

The cd burner works,

The synaptics touchpad worked right outta the box

the wireless card (ipw2200) works good, including monitor mode (finally)

the ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility works and does direct rendering (using ati-drivers and doing nothing fancy)

only parts left un-tested are:
The IR thingy, the card reader and the modem....
oh and the pcmcia, just cuz i don't have a pc card to test it with

vishnja · Post by **vishnja** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:36 am

My T40p has been working fine and stable for more than a year with Gentoo and kernel 2.4.XX plus APM.
Now (with a new harddrive) I got everything (haven't tested IR as I don't need it and didn't compile it into the kernel) working with kernel 2.6.11 and ACPI.
Thanks to this forum!!!

telengard · Post by **telengard** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:31 am

vishnja wrote:My T40p has been working fine and stable for more than a year with Gentoo and kernel 2.4.XX plus APM.
Now (with a new harddrive) I got everything (haven't tested IR as I don't need it and didn't compile it into the kernel) working with kernel 2.6.11 and ACPI.
Thanks to this forum!!!

I also have a T40p running great for quite a while w/ 2.4. The one thing I haven't tried to get working is suspending the laptop. I do have APM in there though so I can monitor the battery etc but I'd like suspend to work, just haven't spent time figuring it out. Wireless, sound, etc all working awesome. At some point I'll upgrade to 2.6 when I have a chunk of free time.

~telengard

jayantkrish · Post by **jayantkrish** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:24 pm

I have an Averatec 3200, and although it was a real hassle to get everything working, i'm currently really happy with it. The wireless works if you use the rt2500 1.3.0.1 drivers provided by realtek and available from their website, but doesn't work with ndiswrapper. You can also use the unichrome project's (http://sourceforge.net/projects/unichrome/) graphics drivers to get openGL working, but you first need to install the framebuffer drivers from VIA's site.

riczan · Post by **riczan** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:52 am

can any thinkpad users with "fully working laptops" reprt their temperatures when working at full speed?

My cpu temperature rises ap to 73 deg when merging, compiling at a freq of 1700. I want to know if this is normal?

at a freq 600 and system idle temperature is 43 deg so a change of 30 deg doesn't seem to be normal.

teme00 · Post by **teme00** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:41 am

I'm running Gentoo 2005.0 in HP Omnibook xe4100 + D-Link DWL-G650 WLAN card. Everything else is working fine (haven't try tv out), but ACPI (works not at all).

BloodyNewbie · Post by **BloodyNewbie** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:18 am

I'm using bleeding edge stuff:

IBM T40P
kernel: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 reiser4 patched
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.

kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1-r1
using reiser4 filesystem on / and ext3 on /home and ext2 on /boot
I'm pretty happy, just annoying that some applications still don't run compiled with gcc3.4 (eg. skype and ctorrent *sigh).

But apart from that, everything works here.

lmcogs · Post by **lmcogs** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:00 pm

hi
I have a ajp 2200c p111 notebook. Got all working ok but may have to abandon because of overheating and it takes forever to emerge. An external fan works ok but you need to be an expert to figure out anything else e.g compiling from another computer.

lmcogs

_loki_ · Post by **_loki_** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:04 pm

working completly- still have minor problems getting framebuffer AND nividia modules to work toghether and have no clue what kind of irda module is in the notebook (as I have a working bluetooth dongle I didn't care so fare)

Sloden · Post by **Sloden** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:33 pm

Tundra 1556K:

Centrinoish
1.5GHz
512Mb ram
ipw2200 (Yay, monitoring!)
855GM video card

Everything I'll ever use works, incl. media keys, framebuffer, dri, touchpad, swsusp etc. Now all I have to do is to learn how to do cron jobs, and make a script which polls the battery level every 2-3 minutes and suspends the laptop if too low. And when Composite matures, i'd like it to work alongside my dri. That'd be nice.

Stian

lokoalex · Post by **lokoalex** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:06 pm

I have an iBuddie A900
Samuel 2 700Mhz Processor
512Mbs Ram
40 Gig Hard Drive dual booting with Windows XP Pro
Sis Video Card

It works perfect. I love it.

plumboy · Post by **plumboy** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:00 am

*Tiny* A440

Pentium III 866
128MB RAM
10GB HD

All working fine.

But I guess there shouldn't be much difference between Desktop & Laptop...they are computers and use similar architectures.

vishnja · Post by **vishnja** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:56 am

@riczan:

I think your temperature is fine, though on the high end. Is your fan working and clean?[/quote]
My normal temperature with xmms, firefox running and some scripting etc. is:

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature
temperature: 39 C

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/trip_points
critical (S5): 93 C
passive: 89 C: tc1=8 tc2=5 tsp=600 devices=0xc151e580

BUT if I emerge huge things and have multimedia running and working, my CPU sometimes overheats and my system halts without any umounting etc...

Have now played a bit with the portage niceness variable in make.conf, but haven't compiled much richt now...

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fons · Post by **fons** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:27 pm

I have an samsung p30 xvc 1400

Hardware:

pentium-m 1,4 ghz
15" XGA TFT / 1.024 x 768
32 MB DDR ATI Mobility Radeon M9 4 x AGP
Flex Bay II 8 x DVD-ROM 24 x 10 x 24 x CD-RW combo
network: 8139too (lan)
ipw2100 (wlan)

and this works:

ati-graphics with acceleration: fglrx (ati-driver) (with second monitor and same screen)
switching cpu-freq with speedfreq between 600 mhz and 1,4 ghz
sound: module: snd_intel8x0 (more sounds @ the same time with dmix)
extra keys and fn-keys (module: asus_acpi)
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature shows cpu-temperature
gnome shows the time how long the notebook will run
also wlan (switched on/off by the extra key, which is also lightning) and ethernet is running
toucpad with scrolling on the right side (module psmouse i think)
acpi is switching to runlevel battery (no cronjob and daemons like this)

and what to do is:

i need a better quality form the dmix ---- why alsa don't support this by standart?? should be!!!
xinerama (i don't need it now; 2th screen is only for movies )
throttling?? i know it is somthin else than speedstep
tv-out (don't know anything about it)
is there a sensor for the hdd?
IR and cardreader (i dont need them)

am_dragon · Post by **am_dragon** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:49 pm

I have a Dell Latitude CPx that has had Gentoo running on it for almost 2 years. It is a 350Mhz Pentium, we really only use it to stream shoutcast. I think it's been rebooted 2x since the install.

I have a Compaq Armada M700 PIII 650Mhz laptop that I'm playing with right now. Just installed a fresh copy of Gentoo, Gnome is running great, I haven't tried to get the modem working yet.

Finally I've got a Toshiba 5105 1.7Ghz P4. Everything working including the modem and the SD card reader.

Tamsco · Post by **Tamsco** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:44 pm

Got a PC Club Enpower 42304, I got it working fine and I even got the Linux PowerCinema up and running for no apparent reason.

Nighthawk · Post by **Nighthawk** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:41 pm

Benq Joybook 3000

But no sound yet. Ali m54544 Sound

Genkernel. If someone could send his alsa conf to me:D

Dlink g650+acx111 working now

Loci79 · Post by **Loci79** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:47 pm

I have it running for nearly 1.5 years now.
It's an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A, 40GB HDD, 768MB RAM

More info on hard- and software you can get at http://www.locimotive.de/systems/sleipnir

Loci

lotw · Post by **lotw** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:57 pm

Korean Ian wrote:Hi Everyone,

Soon I was thinking about purchasing a notebook with which to use Gentoo Linux on. I was curious as to how many browsers of this forum have built a succesful working Gentoo on a notebook.

KI

I have the Toshiba P25-S607, which is a P4 2.8g 1g RAM 17" Widescreen Laptop, everything works. Wireless, wired, 1400x900 display. Actually come to think of it the only thing I haven't tested was the SD slot, since I never use it.

dgaffuri · Post by **dgaffuri** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:45 am

I have the Toshiba P25-S607, which is a P4 2.8g 1g RAM 17" Widescreen Laptop, everything works. Wireless, wired, 1400x900 display. Actually come to think of it the only thing I haven't tested was the SD slot, since I never use it.

ACPI too? I've a Toshiba Tecra M2 (Centrino 2.00 Ghz) but ACPI events don't work at all. I've never tried Firewire and SD, but USB, sound, wireless and graphic (Nvidia) work well (2.6.11-r11)

snoopyisdead · Post by **snoopyisdead** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:50 pm

ACER Aspier 1684 WLMi:
works:
- WIFI works (for WPA-TKIP encryption I use wpa-supplicant - but not with hidden ESSID networks, WEP-ed and unencrypted networks work out of the box)
- LAN
- LCD display in text (vesa-tng) and under X11 - 1280x800 - native resolution, some problems witv svgalib, but without hardware 3D acceleration
- dual layer DVD-recorder works as expected
- USB - works - mouse and flash are recognised
- advanced power managemant (suspend-to -ram, suspend-to-disc)
- cpu frequency scalling for Pentium-M 745 (but after some hand works)
- sound and internal speakers
- touchpad - even middle button , multi finger detection etc (in plain text console - thanks to gpm, under X11 too)
- LED-s
don' know/never used:
- modem
- IRDA
- firewire
- card reader (SD, MC, MMC)
- PC-Card slot

aych · Post by **aych** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:52 pm

i've got an ibm x20 with everything working. with an extended benq mouse and dwl 650 dlink card and a fd750 belkin pcmcia

yuk1to · Post by **yuk1to** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:14 am

I've got my Acer Aspire 1357LCi working, using only open source drivers, except for the modem (don't care about that one, never used any modem) and the infrared port. My Packard Bell Easynote+ works fine aswell, except for the modem which i never used.

pasousa · Post by **pasousa** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:55 am

Compaq presario 2516ea working fine!

I just didn't try the modem because I don't need it!

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