Ok, second part of my description on how I got a (almost) fully working Gentoo Box out of my new DELL Inspiron.
/etc/make.conf
After partitioning and doing the first, trivial procedure of installing the portage and the stage3 for starting the true process of Gentoo installation, I set up the compile options and all the stuff in /etc/make.conf.
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa arts avi -beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvb dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fam firefox ffmpeg foomatic fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ieee1394 input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libedit libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wireless X x86 xml xml2 xorg xosd xv xvid zlib"
LINGUAS="it en"
FEATURES=""
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
I should have configured also CCACHE, as my friend Morkai pointed out, but up to now I am too lazy to do it… so, I’ll do it for sure, but later 🙂
Kernel config
Easy done, this is my .config file for kernel version 2.6.20-gentoo-r5. I have support for a lot of the stuff on the laptop, except, right now, bluetooth and wireless, which I did not yet configure.
Enough for today. I need to sleep! 🙂
Mitakuye Oyasin!