HARDWARE Acer Aspire 5560

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[edit] Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 5562 notebook

This is an article on the 5560 series; mine is a 5562, so your results may vary.

[edit] Overview

  • Intel Centrino Duo (a pair of 1.66GHz CPUs)
  • ATI Radeon Mobility x1400 (128 MB RAM, can use 512MB total through ATi's HyperMemory)
  • Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless card
  • Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
  • PCMCIA slot
  • ExpressCard slot
  • Synaptics touchpad
  • Digital Media card reader
  • Intel HD audio
  • 100 GB Hd
  • 1024 MB DDR RAM
  • 3 USB ports
  • IEEE1394 port
  • kl.k-R/W

[edit] Installing Gentoo

[edit] Basic harddrive configuration

[edit] Gentoo Installation

CFLAGS:

Safe CFLAG setup (from Safe_Cflags#Intel_Core_Solo.2FDuo_.28Yonah.29) is:

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

and for using our 2 CPUs code compilation

MAKEOPTS="-j3"

[edit] Installing touchpad drivers

# emerge synaptics

[edit] Installing ati-drivers

# emerge ati-drivers

[edit] Installing wireless drivers

# emerge ieee80211 ipw3945

It probably will ask you to remove the ieee80211 source from your kernel. Do so and then try emerging the drivers again.

[edit] Installing the Modem

# emerge slmodem

[edit] Installing the wired ethernet

tg3 driver in the kernel

[edit] Kernel tips

Turn on HIGHMEM in the kernel to 4GB, as otherwise the memory on your system will cap out at 768MB.

Turn on SMP but not hyperthreading, and set the number of available CPUs to 2.

[edit] Notes

To make bluetooth (and mail led) work you'll need acer_acpi driver. You can get it at http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html 

  echo "enable:1" >/proc/acpi/acer/bluetooth

Also you can enable/disable mail led (add that to your favorite mail check program)

Enable: 

  echo "enable:1" >/proc/acpi/acer/bluetooth/mailled

Disable: 

  echo "enable:0" >/proc/acpi/acer/bluetooth/mailled

[edit] Links

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