User:Balrok

Hello, I copied http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701 to create this Article This Article only represents my way of installing gentoo on an Samsung NC10 and is surely not the best way, but i provide my knowledge to help new user, and that anybody can show me, what i can improve

Introduction
The aim of Samsung NC10 was to give the enduser the tool of their dreams (there were market-analysts out and looked, what things need to be in a laptop) So it is very lightweight (1.33kg with akku) it has a long duration more than 6h (with gentoo i get 5h) has a big harddisk (160gb), is quite cheap and the processore is not bad too

But there is no Linux on it :-/

Hardware
Processor dual-core Intel Atom with 1.6 GHz each /proc/cpuinfo

3*Usb,audio,webcam,wlan,lan(1gb),touchpad... lspci

no idea what this z-star thing is lsusb

Installation
You need to make a gentoo-boot-usb-stick or need to find an usb-cd-drive cause the laptop doesn't have cd/floppy..

Creating a Gentoo-Usb-Boot-stick isn't hard, the gentoo-guide describes it very easy http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml

But I somehow Crashed Windows (maybe it's also installed on sda2 and sda1 is only boot.. however i doesn't need it anymore gentoo runs good with it :)

And with the usb-stick i also get a strange problem, that the computer hangs when i try to emerge something and it needed to download something... i solved it, with manually wgetting each file in /usr/portage/distfiles (and later in chroot it worked quite well..)

Kernel
I dont know how to add such a nice curses-graphical interface of the kernel-stuff here so i just post my 2.6.27 .config-file for the kernel http://rafb.net/p/J10pBE87.html you maybe can use it as a base and look for improvement (which are welcome at my side :) )

things you shouldn't forget:

Hard-Disk
don't select "ata/atapi/mfm/rll support" select "serial ata" and inside this "intel esb, ich, piix..." (CONFIG_ATA_PIIX) you surely need some more options to get it working, but i forgot them ^^

graphic acceleration
i think this doesn't work, it seems that the kernel doesn't support the intel 945

Framebuffer
i haven't used it yet

X.org
again i just post my xorg.conf here, i used Xorg -configure to get it and copied a synaptics-configuration here (don't know where i got it from) the touchpad-configuration makes the horizontal moving of the mouse a bit slow, i hope someone can provide something better here

http://rafb.net/p/Kq5RYK84.html

my useflags for x.org: dri,input_devices_keyboard,input_devices_mouse,input_devices_synaptics, nptl, sdl, video_cards_intel, xorg

Wired Networking
the 2008.0 (or 2007.0 don't remember) at least supported out of the box wired-networking the driver is: SysKonnect Yukon2 (sky2) found in the 1000 Mbit-network-driver-section in the kernel

if you have issues with ssh you can look here http://www.snailbook.com/faq/mtu-mismatch.auto.html (i think this problem occurs between 100mbit and 1000mbit network-cards)

Wireless
See Atheros 5xxx. to get it working, i enabled the wireless driver ath5k in the kernel and emerged madwifi-tools for me it supports wpa and wep

Webcam
i don't need it ^^

Sound
from asus eeepc-page copied and untested Sound should work with hda-intel alsa driver. See the official Gentoo Alsa Guide.

The alsa drivers with kernel 2.6.24 will not work, you must disable them and use the alsa-driver package at least 1.0.16 this works.

For kernel in vanilla-sources-2.6.26_rc7 hda_intel is working correctly.

-end

configured alsa in the kernel and the driver is pci/intel hd audio (and i kept the "build xyz codec support" at the standard-values)

Special Keys or what does not work
the only special keys, which are working are: turn touchpad on/off turn numblock on/off dimming the backlight and setting the sound doesn't work.. i haven't found a solution for this and will be very happy if someone has a workaround for this