I don't really know off of the top. Based off of secondhand knowledge none
that I can recall.

However, the best thing I can think of to be sure everything works is to get
the latest knoppix DVD and then run that. If the basics work right off of
the bat (WLAN,video,sound,Power functions) then you should be good to go.

If not, at least you can a). return without any issues or b). have a
starting point on what you need to do/get.

Regards,
Christopher Koeber

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Matthew R. Lee <gentoo@matthewlee.org>
wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab.
> The
> university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a
> question,
> has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it?  I sure it will
> work, I'm just wondering if there are any tweaks that dell have made to the
> Ubuntu install to make certain components work, that may be more difficult
> to
> replicate with the gentoo install.  I'm going for the default set-up plus
> extra memory, that's a Pentium dual-core processor E2180 1MB 2GHz, 2GB RAM,
> 250GB SATA, 20" widescreen, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
> 3100,
> Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
> Any comments would be appreciated
> Saludos
> Matt
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Regards,
Christopher Koeber