Toshiba Tecra S10-10X

This article should help you get Gentoo running on a Toshiba Tecra S10-10X with most of it's hardware working. For now it's only tested with a x86 system, but not with an amd64 system. But most of the stuff should work as well an an amd64 system. As you can see above it's all under development, so feel free to add stuff you think is good to know or fix bugs ... there might be some ...

Hardware

 * Intel Core2Duo P8400 @ 2.26GHz
 * 2Gb RAM
 * Nvidia Quadro NVS 150M 512MB VRAM
 * Network
 * Intel WiFi Link 5100 wireless controller
 * Intel 82567LM 10/100/1000 gigabit ethernet controller
 * Toshiba Bluetooth via USB
 * Ricoh IEEE 1394 Controller R5C832
 * Ricoh Cardreader SD/MMC/xD
 * AuthenTec Fingerprintreader AES1600
 * Alps DualPoint Touchpad/Stick
 * Intel TCO Watchdog
 * Infinion TPM Module

Basic Kernel Config
This section describes the basic kernel configuration needed to get the system working

Sound
Getting the sound to work is a bit tricky. Even though the driver seems to initialize the soundcard and you can start playback of some soundfiles, there is nothing to hear. All playing around with the mixer seems to have no effect. The only thing, that seems to help is to load the module with model="toshiba". So heres the trick:

Toshiba Laptop Extras
This option has the effect, that you get some extra files in to control e.g. your backlight.

To use the funktion-keys you should also install which has a ready to use preset for the standard Fn-Keys and lets you configure actions taken, when pressing  combinations. I mean any (or nearly any). You get events in for nearly every  combination.

Graphics
You should put VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in your so the package  gets pulled in when installing. Or you can install the nvidia-driver by yourself:

Software / Useful Stuff
ToDo ... ... ...