Dell Inspiron 640m
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[edit] Introduction
This article is being created to get Gentoo Linux running smoothly on the Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. It can be a little tricky, so bare with us, and you should have a fully working gentoo box by the end of it.
[edit] Hardware
This list can be a little different, but on the base model, this is an lspci:
| Code: lspci |
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 02:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01) 02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 02:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05) 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) |
Note that it's all ICH7 based hardware. Remember that when your configuring your kernel. As a translation, I'll list some of the hardware so everyone can understand it:
| Code: Basic hardware list |
Video: Intel onboard GMA950, up to 256MB shared memory Audio: Intel High Definition audio (intel-hda with alsa) uSB 1.1 Controller: UHCI Ethernet: Onboard Broadcom ethernet adapter Wireless: Dell 1390 wireless (broadcom 44xx series) Disks: SATA disks. This is for the Hard drive and the DVD burner. |
[edit] Installation Notes
When booting of the Gentoo Livecd, use the nox option as X won't start with the basic options. Once you get into the command line, feel free to edit the xorg.conf to how you need it to be to start X. You can't use widescreen without 915resolution, and it doesn't come on the livecd, so don't bother trying to set your native resolution.
