>> A week? You're a perfectionist! I installed it yesterday night and got a 100% working console no-wireless system. :-)
I was talking about my first time installing gentoo. You have my regards if you managed to complete the base install overnight ;)
>> I see you too installed the 2.6.27 kernel, because of the Wifi, right?
Right
>> Can you post the relevant parts of your kernel config?
linux $ grep MAC80211 .config
CONFIG_MAC80211=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_PID=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_PID=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="pid"
# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS is not set
# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
# CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM is not set
linux $ grep IWL .config
CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m
CONFIG_IWLCORE=m
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_IWLWIFI_RFKILL is not set
# CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IWLAGN=m
CONFIG_IWLAGN_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y
CONFIG_IWLAGN_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set
CONFIG_IWL5000=y
# CONFIG_IWL3945 is not set
>> Or maybe we could maintain a Wiki topic on the Gentoo Wiki.
I am planning to start a T400 article on the new gentoo-wiki. Let me know if you start an article.
>> There are still a lot of peripherals to go... I would particularly like changing the framebuffer console size
You can use uvesafb for high resolution console. It gives the native 1280x800 resolution if i use intel video. With ati it seems to manage a maximum of 1024x768.
>> and getting the bluetooth light off.
You can disable the bluetooth through the proc interface like so:
# echo "disable" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
>> Any luck with fglrx or radeonhd yet?
Video playback performance was unsatisfactory with fglrx. i.e. Resizing video windows was _very_ slow. That means switching to fullscreen is slow too.
Video colours were faded out with fglrx (Xv). OpenGL output for mplayer with fglrx was slow enough to lag the audio/video. I did try radeohd for a while but was put off by the lack of OpenGL support (i think).
I am using Intel(Xv) with XAA right now. x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.5.1 works fine except for when I want to switch to console and back to xorg.
EDIT: After posting this I went back to try the latest driver in portage, 8.552-r2. The opengl output for mplayer is faster (read: usable) now. XVideo output still has faded colours.
The ati gpu is more stable than intel while working with maya.
Message Edited by xslr on 12-14-2008 12:52 AM