Acer Extensa 4420
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[edit] Overview
This is an article about running Gentoo on an Acer Extensa 4420. I specifically have a Extensa 4420-5874
[edit] lspci Output
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7914 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) 00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) 00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) 00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8071 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 0b:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711SP1 Memory CardBus Controller (rev 01) 0b:06.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02) 0b:06.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01) 0b:06.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
[edit] Installing
The Gentoo mini CD uses an older kernel that does not support the wireless card or nic card in this laptop. To make things easier I just installed it from the system rescue cd [1]. Tip: when booting type rescue64 for a 64 bit install.
[edit] my make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
# portage
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://gentoo.arctinetwork.ca/"
USE="X -gnome gtk -kde -qt3 -qt4 dbus lirc xfce4 xscreensaver alsa -oss jpeg spell xinerama truetype -ipv6 -cups"
# x
INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics"
VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx"
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I plan to fix this page up real nice later. I'm going to make it an entire guide to installing Gentoo on this bs laptop.
[edit] Windows
For people who plan on installing Windows XP and dual booting with Gentoo Linux:
- 1. Simply make your Windows XP partition the first one. So make a say 20gig NTFS partition as partition 1.
- 2. Install Grub and chain load it to the Windows boot loader.
- 3. On Gentoo Linux install NTFS-3g so you can read/write to the NTFS partitions including the XP partition.
Tip: The Acer Europe site seems to have the correct drivers listed and is much more organized. http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/ex_4420.html Also, the ATI driver for the x1250 is crap. I used Omega drivers.
