Gentoo on Samsung Q45

Hi there,

I saw a nice Notebook some weeks ago. The Samsung Q45-Aura
T7250 Devesh.
It comes with Windows Vista and works perfectly with Windows
XP. But how
about Gentoo? Can I use most of the features this notebook
provides
(e.g. Intel WLAN)? Does anybody use this notebook already?
And can I
reach the 6h battery-uptime, or is it only possible to reach
by using
Windows and the 'battery-manager' (Samsung
software-product)?

kind regards

Alex
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On 16/10/2007, Beso <givemesugarrgmail.com> wrote:
> the components inside seems very good and are well
supported. the wlan works
> very good if it is from intel (it has opensource
drivers and documentation
> so it works good). you may experience some problems
with processor acpi.
> there's in this list a discussion of mine with another
member about his
> acpi/processor problems with a core2duo t77.

Things tend to improve with each kernel version though...

> the acpi from acer usually is not very good, so yours
might work well
> without problems. i think that it's best for you to try
some new livecd and
> see what it gets into
/proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/trip_points
> and /proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/temperature files. if
you're
> able to read temperature and you do have the trip
points (ie, the cat on the
> temperature file gives you a degree and if your trip
points show you
> active[0], active[1], passive and critical temperatures
in degrees) then you
> won't have any problem with the processor driver.
control also the
> /proc/acpi/fan/ directories to see if acpi recognizes
the fan(s) in your pc.
> if all this things work then your notebook should run
out of the box very
> well.

Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several versions behind
the latest
kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100% indicator whether
things will
work.
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> > Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several
versions behind the latest
> > kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100% indicator
whether things will
> > work.
>
> for example, opensuse's one was always current with the
distro. the distro
> was out less than 14 days ago and included a lot of new
packages. that one i
> pretty good in terms of drivers (has the 2.6.22r8 if i
don't miss).
> your affirmation is good to point out that if livecd
works out then surely
> the installed distro would surelly go well.
> i was forgetting: for all the new processors it's
possibile to run
> paravirtualized windows on linux with xen. so you can
run windows and linux
> at the same time if you need to. also i would recommend
installing linux on
> a lvm2 (on the gentoo docs should be some instructions
on how to do it).

However you may end up fighting with the fact xen-sources
usually lags
several major versions behind gentoo-sources; and also end
up fighting
with qemu-dm to get your hardware virtualized copy of
Windows running.
Last I checked HVM is also quite slow.

Given all the options I've stuck with VMware for
virtualizing MS
Windows lately.  Obviously not acceptable if you can't live
with a
binary blob though, although these days you can pick up
VMware Server
for free and it's perfectly functional.
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Oh wow,

thanks for the fast reply and the bunch of tips. I'll order
the notebook and boot some LiveCD-Systems. If there are any
problems (like unrecognized hardware) I'll donate this
notebook to my GF ;)

greetings!

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Von: alex.howells0wn3d.us [mailto:alex.howells0wn3d.us]
Im Auftrag von Alex Howells
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 22:12
An: gentoo-laptoplists.gentoo.org
Betreff: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo on Samsung Q45

> > Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several
versions behind the 
> > latest kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100%
indicator whether things 
> > will work.
>
> for example, opensuse's one was always current with the
distro. the 
> distro was out less than 14 days ago and included a lot
of new 
> packages. that one i pretty good in terms of drivers
(has the 2.6.22r8 if i don't miss).
> your affirmation is good to point out that if livecd
works out then 
> surely the installed distro would surelly go well.
> i was forgetting: for all the new processors it's
possibile to run 
> paravirtualized windows on linux with xen. so you can
run windows and 
> linux at the same time if you need to. also i would
recommend 
> installing linux on a lvm2 (on the gentoo docs should
be some instructions on how to do it).

However you may end up fighting with the fact xen-sources
usually lags several major versions behind gentoo-sources;
and also end up fighting with qemu-dm to get your hardware
virtualized copy of Windows running.
Last I checked HVM is also quite slow.

Given all the options I've stuck with VMware for
virtualizing MS Windows lately.  Obviously not acceptable if
you can't live with a binary blob though, although these
days you can pick up VMware Server for free and it's
perfectly functional.
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