Linux on Laptops

Installing Linux on a Gateway 7510GX

32-bit X86 *Ubuntu 6.10
By: Ron O.

Last updated: 4/07/2007

General Hardware Specifications of the Gateway 7510GX:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
AMD 64 3700+ (2.4Ghz)	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
15.4 Widescreen Display	Works	No special procedure required during installation
ATI Mobility Radeon X600	Works	No special procedure required during installation
1024MB, SDRAM DDR 333, 2DIMMs	Works	No special procedure required during installation
100 GB Fujisu ATA100 Hard Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Via Firewire 400	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Card Marvell LAN	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal 56k Modem	Not tested (But it will work)	Picks up the card, but never tested.
Broadcom 4318 802.11b/g Wireless adapter	Works with the tutorial I've written, the tutorial is old, so there are most likely new ways.	http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/ Networking/How_to_get_Broadcom_43xx_Wire less_AirForce54g_card_to_work_proven_in_Ubuntu_ Dappe_Drake
6 cell Lithium-Ion Battery	Works	No special procedure required during installation
ATi IXP onboard sound card	Works	Sound problems have occured though. Sound won't work on every bootup, every nth bootups or so it will.
Built-in speakers	Works	Work out of the box. Nice.
Express Card slot (36/54 mm)	Works	Works
Flash card reader (SD/MS/MMC/MSPRO)	Works	Works

This laptop is running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft 32 bit.

Basic Installation of Dapper Drake:

Advantages of Dapper

Great installation, quick and straight foward.
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Installing is straightforward: pop in the CD and answer the 5 quick questions (less then 2 mintues).
Post-Install modifications/tweaks: I had to do the following:
The dreaded Broadcom 4318 54g AirForce was the main problem. Still cannot figure out the sound problems.

Unresolved issues

The crappy Broadcom 4318 chip; yes, you can get it to work, but it will save you time and trouble to just buy a Prism based Linksys PCMCIA card. I've encounterd times that BCM4418 will not connect to a network, but a prism based card I just slipped in (works with kernel instantly) will connect simply.

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

HD usage: Dapper Drake installs on a 2GB HD just fine (full graphical install). Of course, it won't leave you a lot of elbow room.
Strangly, once I noticed the kernel will automatically use Intel Speedstep for laptop CPU speed throttling. I'm not sure if this was an error I did, but if strange things with it happens, it may be that you need to make sure (use modconf as root)that the AMD cpu throttling module is loaded, rather then Intel.

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