From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGE9b-0002gM-30 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:26:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41AC9E052B; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B063BE052B for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2542117rvf.46 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:26:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=ibJ59g8JOXE11RkeqgKteF6ZMn5kqqnG4nQ8T1s32Zg=; b=LMV4ArmLjbCGJvUFTRn3SAVGRQMsgfon4uBLJwfOf0nEClk1j34yX5zyE4msPrwevf bBBix5/pEkTEpsiup3YzV5Ksgm+jZ3VwBlH/EpEMEu7DUjyJeSdpwuKUgdaJ2m5QFO6f DE54GmdIJJmdMWG+PB+eAsg6PVtQBqB17So/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=eHKXHWd7ecRyJUIljjHrx9EujVhnX2ypdELnn7FZEdVdbmHebSDYTWhW7iMVPgrTIo mLbCnuaDt9Nu1SiVM6AppwDZndviVHm35RgKlEprlKI9Q0bhy8tQQcPm/Jj/Ypn4MbEQ ZdmpwBTKnpRIRianpLRgzvQtqIhIApsxYtixQ= Received: by 10.140.199.3 with SMTP id w3mr3212534rvf.16.1215527203934; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.29.1 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:26:43 -0400 From: "Christopher Koeber" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop In-Reply-To: <200807080912.53735.gentoo@matthewlee.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_19084_29552682.1215527203933" References: <200807080912.53735.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-Archives-Salt: 17569acb-7755-44e8-9428-62ca960cfdda X-Archives-Hash: 57b966d4ef641fa9fcb2e983f5f5bbcc ------=_Part_19084_29552682.1215527203933 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Dr. Matthew R. Lee > Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' > Universidad Austral de Chile > Campus Isla Teja > Valdivia > > matt@matthewlee.org > > URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Regards, Christopher Koeber ------=_Part_19084_29552682.1215527203933 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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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Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter'
Universidad Austral de Chile
Campus Isla Teja
Valdivia

matt@matthewlee.org

URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org
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