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[edit] Hardware

 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU
 flags  : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

Would someone explain each/most of these flags?

[edit] Hardware Status Overview

[edit] Graphics

See this guide.

Make sure to compile intel-agp, apg, drm, and i915 into or as modules with the kernel.

[edit] Compiz-fusion on the x3100

See above how-to.

Use the following commands after installing compiz:

(more to be added shortly)

[edit] Audio

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[edit] Kernel modules

Relevant module would be snd-hda-intel with Realtek HD-audio codec support, actual codec is Realtek ALC268.

Compile ALSA as module and append following lines to your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa:

 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
 options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=acer
 

Then run update-modules to generate modprobe configuration.

[edit] Ethernet

Marvell Yukon 88e8039 PCIE (sky2)

Works without problems.

Device Drivers  --->
    [*] Network device support  --->
        [*]   Ethernet (1000 Mbit)  --->
            <*>   SysKonnect Yukon2 support

[edit] Wifi

[edit] Atheros AR5007EG PCIE

See the Atheros 5xxx article.

 essid_ath0="any"   
 config_ath0=( "dhcp" )
 dhcpcd_ath0="-t 30" # Timeout after 30 seconds

[edit] Broadcom

good luck with a native driver if one exist ndiscrapper someone have this acer/broadcom combo? feel free to edit this

[edit] Modem

ideas? what kinda device is this? my ventures with linuxant slmodem scanmodem all were fruitless and in linuxant's case killed my whole system

[edit] hotkeys

kmods

acer_acpi
acerhk 

I'm working on getting the hotkeys to work sofar Fn+arrows dont change the brightness I have to manually

if wifi stops

Without installing acer_acpi or acerhk - The LEDs do not work on the E or wireless button but the wireless button does shut on and off the antenna. Using xev, I am unable to elicit a keycode for the dollar, euro, Fn, E, and wireless buttons. All others work. We need to figure this out - at least the Fn key. Without those 2 packages already mentioned, ironically my Fn+L or R arrows control backlight brightness, Numloack, and likely otehr things - I just haven't tried the others. --MR

[edit] touchpad

This is the pertinent section for the synaptics touchpad in xorg.conf:

       Identifier  "Mouse0"
       Driver      "synaptics"
       Option          "CorePointer"
       Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
       Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
       Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
       Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
       Option          "SHMConfig"     "on"

[edit] Misc

[edit] Usefull USE Flags

cpu speciffic

acpi mmx sse ssse3 sse2 

misc

wifi dvd cdr

[edit] References

[edit] Full 'lspci -v' Output

Can be found here.

[edit] Kernel config

A 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 .config can be found here.

[edit] Boot Messages

The full dmesg output using the given kernel .config can be seen here.

[edit] XOrg Config

This is my working xorg.conf file.

[edit] Xorg.0.log

The complete X output can be found here.

[edit] glxinfo

The complete glxinfo can be found here.

MR! wiki tag your it! your turn! lol i fixed my half now lets better integrate em! eh? i'd help ya with glx/compiz stuff but im currently using fluxbox and quite happy without it ps hit me up on #gentoo or #gentoo-chat --jimiridge pss thanx for the kernel.conf we gotta chat it up on irc sometime

[edit] Todo and Progress Info

1. hotkeys
2. more details on devices and corresponding kernel settings
3. Update xorg.conf, kernel config, etc.
4. Improve bootup (debug errors listed and speed up) - this is a SLOW PROCESS and I think I will need a lot of help with this
5. make this page more pretty (wiki page) i think i came back to gentoo just cause this wiki page ;) (jimmiridge)
6. maybe compress things like one heading for make.conf except several calls to it? i dunno hows the format look to you?

jimiridge - how would we do that last point?

NOTE: Compiz is now WORKING!!! - I had to compile intel-agp, agp, drm, and i915 into my kernel - I will post further directions above shortly --MR