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Gentoo on a Gen2...

post #1 of 8
1/24/07 at 1:51pm
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I have an XPS Gen2. Does anyone run Gentoo on it? If so did you take any extra steps to set it up correctly for this laptop (other than what the handbook says)? What options did you enable in your manual kernel configuration? What did your grub boot file contain?

I just want the best config for this laptop.
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post #2 of 8
1/24/07 at 2:30pm
I've used Gentoo before on several machines, but haven't gotten around to installing it yet on my on my I9300. It isn't the easiest flavor of Linux to get up and running. However once you do you'll be stoked as the efficiency of running a system custom tailored to what you want, with apps compiled exactly for your machine makes it all worthwhile. That said, I think you'll have much more success in getting responses asking this type of question in the Linux forum up towards the top of the page. BTW the Gentoo forums are very active with courteous knowledgeable posters who'll be more than happy to lend a hand and help you get set-up. I hope this helps.

Ciao
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post #3 of 8
1/25/07 at 12:03am
I got Suse 10.2 running flawless on my 9300 with all the drivers installed even Wireless.

The Clown
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post #4 of 8
1/26/07 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by big_fat_clown
I got Suse 10.2 running flawless on my 9300 with all the drivers installed even Wireless.

The Clown

Ya, I did too... but I want to try gentoo now. I've had two unsucessful installations. I've read the manual(s) and wiki's. I figured I'd ask here since it's where all the people who actually have the laptop are versus the gentoo forums where it could be any machine.
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post #5 of 8
1/26/07 at 8:55pm
Tip: There is a Linux section on Notebookforums, posting there might get you better answers. I have gotten gentoo to run on my e1705, but it just took a while. It shouldn't be that hard to do on a gen2 considering I had it on my 9300 as well (which is pretty much the same laptop). But I wasn't too happy with gentoo, if i gave it more time, im sure i would have, but i was way to lazy to set it all up. Ubuntu and suse work pretty flawlessly. even got the card readder and media buttons to work in ubuntu. Try gentoo, see what you think, if its too hard just go back to suse, or try ubuntu.

PS i don't like suse, so i may be a little biased against it
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post #6 of 8
1/27/07 at 2:12pm
I've been running Gentoo on my XPS2 (with everything bar the SD card slot working - although I did find a possible solution but never got round to trying it) pretty much since I got the thing nearly two years ago up until a month or so ago when I had to send my laptop back to Dell.

Only just got it back and about to install Gentoo again over the next few days, think I saved all my configuration files so will post them here if I do.
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post #7 of 8
2/12/07 at 12:01pm
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Can anyone please post their .config for their xp2 gen2... I'm trying to configure my kernel the best way for this hardware and I seem to be having a little difficulty. I figured i'd ask here because this is where all the xps users are (not in the linux forums) thanks
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post #8 of 8
2/12/07 at 12:11pm
Sent mine again, not sure why you didn't get it before...
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