From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:35:49 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288220749.8318.183.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC7E0C2.6080201@club-internet.fr>
Hi,
Ask not "will this work on Gentoo", rather ask "will this work on
Linux"! You'll get much better responses to your research on google at
least. If it works on any mainstream Linux distribution, there's a
99.9% chance it will work on Gentoo.
For example, I just did a google search for "NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M
linux" and found out in a few seconds that it probably works with
nvidia-drivers 260.19.06, but not nouveau (open source drivers).
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers tells me
that nvidia-drivers 260.19.06 and 260.19.12 are hard-masked because
they're in the beta phase, so you may or may not have success with them.
You can repeat that search ("hardware-device linux") for all the usual
problematic hardware that you decide you "must have" working:
* video camera
* wireless
* ethernet
* bluetooth
* audio
however you need the actual chip or vendor name, for example "Intel
PRO/Wireless 4965" not just "Integrated 802.11". The specs you gave are
a bit light on those details. The best way to do this is run lspci on
the box in the store as someone mentioned.
Yes you will be able to install Linux on it for sure. Still not sure
about 100% hardware compatibility.
HTH,
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from
our children.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 12:03 [gentoo-user] Laptop Roger Cahn
2010-10-26 14:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-26 15:54 ` Kfir Lavi
2010-10-27 8:20 ` Roger Cahn
2010-10-27 23:05 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2010-10-28 9:08 ` Roger Cahn
2010-10-28 9:33 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-28 10:33 ` Roger Cahn
2010-10-28 23:28 ` Iain Buchanan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-26 13:54 [gentoo-user] laptop John Jolet
2005-10-26 14:20 ` A. Khattri
2005-10-26 14:40 ` John Jolet
2005-10-26 14:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-26 15:20 ` A. Khattri
2005-10-26 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-27 0:25 ` Stroller
2005-10-26 15:16 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-10-26 15:29 ` A. R.
2005-10-26 15:26 ` michael
2005-10-26 18:49 ` Willie Wong
2005-10-27 0:29 ` Stroller
2005-10-27 0:16 ` Bob Sanders
2005-10-27 3:09 ` A. Khattri
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1288220749.8318.183.camel@localhost \
--to=iaindb@netspace.net.au \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox