Dell Inspiron 6400

= Hardware =

lspci -nn

Or, if you got the nVidia GeForce Go 7300, you'll see something like this instead of the ATI VGA controller: lspci -nn [pipe] grep VGA

Intel GMA945 lspci -nn

= Configuration =

xorg-x11 7.4
Remove all InputDevice sections and references to InputDevice in ServerLayout from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Drivers
gentoo-sources 2.6.25 contains support for all hardware in the Inspiron 6400. This includes the drivers for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. x86-64 users may have difficulty getting the wireless card to work with gentoo-sources 2.6.25, and should upgrade to 2.6.26.

Graphics
Choose a graphics driver from those available for your card and follow the linked guide.

Sound Card Intel HDA
Simply enable the kernel options listed above, then emerge alsa-utils and unmute the sound using alsamixer.

Intel Wireless 3945ABG
See the main page on the 3945 for the kernel options to enable.