HARDWARE Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 7500

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[edit] Introduction

[edit] Purpose

The pupose of this tip is to describe aditional information needed to install gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 7500.


[edit] References

[edit] Hardware Spec

System Specifications Processors: Mobile Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III,
Formfactor: MMC-2
Official Range: 400MHz to 750MHz
Highest Upgrade: 750Mhz
Speedstep: Yes (In the 700 and 750Mhz processors, with rev. 11 BIOS or newer)
Chipset: Intel 82440BX and 82371EB
Memory type: 144pin SDRAM
Maximum: 512MB using 2 256MB SODIMMs
Video: ATI Mobility P 4MB or 8MB AGP 2X
Upgradable: Yes, proprietary video card is user-replaceable.
Audio: ESS Maestro 2e
Cardbus: TI1225
Supported OSes: Windows 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 2000
Other OSes: Linux, *BSD, Solaris 8, Windows XP (Not supported by Dell. Needs the video driver below.)

[edit] Configuration

[edit] Make system

Pentium 2.

[edit] Kernel Configuration

Linux Kernel Configuration: General
Processor type and features --> 
  Processor family --> 
    Pentium-II

Power management options --> 
  APM

Bus Options --> 
  PCCARD
    <*> PCCARD
    <*> 16-bit
    <*> 32-bit
    <*> CardBus yeanta-compatible bridge support.
 Device Drivers  --->
     ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support  --->
        <*>         Intel PIIXn chipsets support
     Input device support  --->
        [*]   Mouse  --->
           <*>   PS/2 mouse
     Character devices  --->
        <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
           <*>   Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
        <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
           <M>   ATI Rage 128
           <M>   ATI Radeon
     Graphics support  --->
        <*> Support for frame buffer devices
        <M> ATI Radeon display support (Old driver)
        <M> ATI Mach64 display support
           [*]   Mach64 CT/VT/GT/LT (incl. 3D RAGE) support
           [*]     Mach64 generic LCD support (EXPERIMENTAL)
           [*]     Rage XL No-BIOS Init support
           [*]   Mach64 GX support 
      Sound  --->
        <*> Sound card support 
           Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
              <*> ESS ES1968/1978 (Maestro-1/2/2E)

Linux Kernel Configuration: For the 575CT card
Device Drivers --> 
  Networking support --> 
    Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
      <*> 3COM cards
      <*> 3c590/3c900 series

Linux Kernel Configuration: Support for Frame buffer
Device Drivers --> 
  Graphics support --> 
    Console display driver support
      <*> Video mode selection support
      <*> Framebuffer Console support

[edit] Xorg

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#       FontPath     "unix/:7100"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#       Option  "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
# or:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
#       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
#
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "dk"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Rage Mobility"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1400x1050" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

[edit] GRUB

File: /boot/grub/grub.conf
#
# $Id:$

# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1

splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

#

title  Gentoo-2.6.12-r10 -0F02
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/bzImage vga=0x0F02


title Fedora Core 4
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=792
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img


# Change the colors.
title Change the colors
color light-green/brown blink-red/blue

Please note that I have the Gentoo in one partition on /dev/hda3.

[edit] rc.conf

File: /etc/rc.conf
 /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings

# UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console.
# If you set to yes, please make sure to set a UNICODE aware CONSOLEFONT and
# KEYMAP in the /etc/conf.d/consolefont and /etc/conf.d/keymaps config files.

UNICODE="no"

# Set EDITOR to your preferred editor.
# You may use something other than what is listed here.

EDITOR="/bin/nano"
#EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
#EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs"

# What display manager do you use ?  [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

# XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start
# default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit.  The default behavior
# is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the
# value that XSESSION is set to.  The support scripts are smart enough to
# look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/,
# so setting it to "enlightenment" can also work.  This is basically used
# as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM,
# allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc.
#
# NOTE:  1) this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc exists, and startx
#           is called.
#        2) even if ~/.xsession exists, if XSESSION can be resolved, it will
#           be executed rather than ~/.xsession, else KDM breaks ...
#
# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps

XSESSION="kde-3.4"

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