[CLUE-Tech] Gateway 400SP notebook/ 2.5.72 kernel

[Dan Harris]

FWIW, I now have a fully functional laptop including i830 video drivers 
(on the 2.4.20 kernel), linksys wireless 802.11b, and sound.  Woohoo.. 
The answer to my X problem was that I needed to get the latest i830 
drivers from Intel's support site.  Works beautifully except the maximum 
resolution seems to be 1024x768. 

-Dan

Match Grun wrote:

>Dan,
>
>Did you check on:
>
>	http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
>
>Maybe someone has already installed Linux on this model or a similar
>model to run Linux.
>
>If anyone else is considering buying a laptop, I recommend checking with
>this site. Maybe someone has already done some legwork.
>
>Don't be disheartened if your model is not listed. For example, the Dell
>Inspiron 8000 series have many similarities. So when a new model comes
>out (every 6 months), info may still be relevant for the new model.
>
>Match
>
>
>On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:06:33 -0600
>Dan Harris <coronadh at coronasolutions.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I just got my shiny new Gateway 400SP ( 2.2GHZ Celeron, 512MB, 40gig).
>> 
>>It was too good of a deal to pass up.
>>
>>After toying with this sucker the better part of the dark hours, I'm 
>>still stuck trying to get X to run.  It looks like it has some 
>>bleeding-edge chipset that nobody seems to know.  Seems like I always 
>>get stumped on bleeding-edge stuff.
>>
>>So, to troubleshoot, I thought I'd start with lspci.  lspci reports
>>that it's an Intel VGA Unknown device.  Google couldn't find me
>>anything about the chipset for my exact model.  I tried kernel 2.4.20
>>and 2.4.21 hoping that someone had included support for it.  No
>>luck...
>>
>>So... I thought what the heck, new machine, nothing sacred on it yet. 
>>Maybe try the latest 2.5 kernel and see if it's in there.  I waded 
>>through the new menuconfig and thought I had something workable.  
>>Compiled ok, rebooted, and the new kernel just won't boot.  It says 
>>Loading linux....... then gives the first few lines of output and then
>>just hangs.  I know this could be pretty much anything, but maybe 
>>someone else has messed with 2.5.72 and might point me to something 
>>'obvious' that I might have missed?  First thought was the wrong CPU 
>>architecture.  That appears to be correct ( unless the mobile celeron 
>>needs somthing other than Pentium 3 or Pentium 4, I tried both).
>>
>>Sorry it's so vague but I'm running out of options before I have to
>>put in the crappy restore CD and reload WinXP (icky).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dan
>>
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