Dell XPS M170

INPROGESS .... .... ...

Boot time:

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Driver nouveau

Here we describe several treaks to get a perfect gentoo system running on the M170. We split this up with the three main configuration files needed. Fresh install use in conjunction with a suitable Gentoo handbook.

Ricoh SDCard reading http://blog.adamsbros.org/2009/08/11/mmcsdhc-card-readers-and-gentoo-linux/

Wireless Card [IPW2200 ]http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Ipw2200 ]

Multimedia buttons

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-694018.html

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ipw2200-bss.fw" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

make.conf
Intel Pentium Centrino

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
 * 1) CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

Kernel: vanilla-3.2.5

config.gz
I like to keep my kernel small, but don't like modules, so everything is built-in. Due to this firmware for the wireless card needs to be builtin too.