Has anyone successfully installed gentoo on a fairly recent-model Gateway laptop? I'm specifically interested in the 200 series.
My 2-year old Dell Inspiron 4000 is (physically) starting to come apart
on me (thank god for duct tape!), and I'm sorta shopping around for a
replacement in the thin-n-light category. The new Gateway 200 series
looks pretty slick...
curious, -chris
According to gateway's product details, it looks very similar to my gateway 450 ( http://gateway.com/home/prod/hm_450x_proddetail.shtml )
<plug> I wrote a howto for that one ( http://tuxmobil.org/gateway_450x.html ). </plug>
Also check out the rest of Werner Heuser's site, which has a whole page dedicated to the centrino notebooks
The neat thing I've noticed about the centrino notebooks is that alot of the info from, say, a dell 600m is still very relavant to my gateway 450. Makes things easy.
One thing you may wish to look into is the Intel graphics. AFAIK, the problems with the dell 500m were due to the integrated intel graphics. There is an Xfree86 patch around to fix the problem (couldnt get higher than 640x480 iirc), but it could cause alot of headaches if you didnt know.
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