[gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Hunter Jozwiak]

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Hi gang. I am looking in to buying a System76 rig, and I am curious as to
how Gentoo and System76 play together. What installation steps do I need to
beware of when installing to such laptops? What CFLAGS are good to have, and
CXXFLAGS, for that matter? Aside from the obvious hardware modules, what
else would be good to build in to a kernel? I have been doing some research
on the matter, but my results have been inconclusive.

Thanks,

Hunter


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Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Nuno Magalhães]

I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one
specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be
handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + <specific hardware>,
follow the handbook.
You have the slight assurance those laptops are built with linux in
mind; anything else is just business as usual.

Cheers,
Nuno

[1] http://www.pcidatabase.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Emanuele Rusconi]

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On 2 October 2015 at 10:28, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:

>
> [1] http://www.pcidatabase.com/
>

I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to have System76 in the database,
though.

Once you have your hands on the laptop, this site can help you to know
which drivers you need to build in the kernel:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

-- Emanuele

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Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Nuno Magalhães]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [1] http://www.pcidatabase.com/
>
>
> I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to have System76 in the database,
> though.

That's because System76 doesn't manufacture hardware components, but
(at least most of) those found in one of their laptops will likely be
in that database.

Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one
> specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be
> handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + <specific hardware>,
> follow the handbook.
> You have the slight assurance those laptops are built with linux in
> mind; anything else is just business as usual.

Unless they or Ubuntu are carrying out-of-mainline drivers I'd say
your assurance is more than slight, but I'm not reimbursing you if for
some reason it doesn't work.  :)

If you want to run a 2.6-series kernel on it you could have problems,
but if you don't mind running a recent stable (ie what Gentoo ships by
default anyway) I suspect you'll be fine.  Worst case you'll just run
closer to bleeding-edge on ~arch for the kernel for a few months until
longterm catches up, and lots of people around here run ~arch anyway.

-- 
Rich

RE: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Hunter Jozwiak]

-----Original Message-----
From: freemanrich@gmail.com [mailto:freemanrich@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rich Freeman
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 18:02
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one 
> specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be 
> handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + <specific hardware>, 
> follow the handbook.
> You have the slight assurance those laptops are built with linux in 
> mind; anything else is just business as usual.

Unless they or Ubuntu are carrying out-of-mainline drivers I'd say your assurance is more than slight, but I'm not reimbursing you if for some reason it doesn't work.  :)

If you want to run a 2.6-series kernel on it you could have problems, but if you don't mind running a recent stable (ie what Gentoo ships by default anyway) I suspect you'll be fine.  Worst case you'll just run closer to bleeding-edge on ~arch for the kernel for a few months until longterm catches up, and lots of people around here run ~arch anyway.

--
Rich
I will be running to ~arch on install anyways.