HOWTO Install Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 4400

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Contents 1 Summary of Support to Date 2 Configuration 2.1 AMD Turion 3 Related Links

[edit] Summary of Support to Date

• Dual-booting Windows XP Works

• AMD Turion 64bit Processor Works
  • PowerNow! CPU Frequency Scaling Works
• ATI RS480M / SB400 Works
• ACPI 1.0b Support Works

• Hard Drive (40GB) Works
  • DMA Works
• DVD/CD-RW Combo Works
• 6-in-1 Card Reader Not supported

• Synaptics Touchpad Works
• Keyboard Works
  • Hotkeys Works
  • Euro/Dollar keys Recognised, not bound.
• Mail LED Works

• ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M Works
• Dual Screen / Big Desktop Works
• OpenGL Works
  • Direct Rendering Works
• ATI IXP Soundcard Works
  • Internal Mircophone Works
  • Microphone Socket Works
  • Headphone Socket Works

• ATI IXP Modem Not tested
• RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Works
• Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless Network Works
• NSC PC87108/PC87338 Infrared (FIR) Works
• Belkin Bluetooth USB Dongle Works

• USB 2.0 Works
• IEEE 1394 Works
• PCMCIA Works

• Hibernation Works
• Suspend-to-RAM Works
• Framebuffer Console Works
• Gensplash In progress

The above was acheived with the following:

• Linux kernel 2.6.17-suspend2-r2
• Ndiswrapper 1.21
• acer-acpi module 0.3

[edit] Configuration

[edit] AMD Turion

Kernel config:

Processor type and features  --->
   Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible)  --->
   Processor family (AMD-Opteron/Athlon64)  --->
   < > /dev/cpu/microcode - Intel CPU microcode support
   < > /dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support 
   < > /dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support
   [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support
   [ ] Symmetric multi-processing support
   Preemption Model (Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop))  --->
   Memory model (Flat Memory)  --->
   [*] Provide RTC interrupt
   [ ] K8 GART IOMMU support
   --- Machine check support
   [ ]   Intel MCE features
   [*]   AMD MCE features
   [ ] kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)
   [ ] kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)
   [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode
   Timer frequency (1000 HZ)  --->
   [*] Function reordering

Power management options  --->
   CPU Frequency scaling  --->
      [*] CPU Frequency scaling
      [ ]   Enable CPUfreq debugging
      <*>   CPU frequency translation statistics
      [*]     CPU frequency translation statistics details
      Default CPUFreq governor (userspace)  --->
      <*>   'performance' governor
      <*>   'powersave' governor
      ---   'userspace' governor for userspace frequency scaling
      <*>   'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor
      < >   'conservative' cpufreq governor
      ---   CPUFreq processor drivers
      <*>   AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!
      < >   Intel Enhanced SpeedStep
      <*>   ACPI Processor P-States driver
      ---   shared options
      [ ]   /proc/acpi/processor/../performance interface (deprecated)

[edit] Related Links

• Broadcom 43xx