Installing Gentoo on a ThinkPad X40

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Contents

1 Tips
- 1.1 CPU Undervolting
- 1.2 kernel compilation
  - 1.2.1 ipw2200 driver (intel wireless)
  - 1.2.2 zen kernel
    - 1.2.2.1 tuxonice compression
2 External Sources

Tips

CPU Undervolting

There is a gentoo overlay by Michael Weber for phc_intel and phctool : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283472
(exploration notes : the phc kernel patch is included in sys-kernel/zen-sources see also : http://zen-kernel.org/included-code and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-805069.html )

kernel compilation

ipw2200 driver (intel wireless)

don't forget to compile it as a module : http://bugs.gentoo.org/202557

zen kernel

tuxonice compression

cf http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/TuxOnIce
select lzo compression in "make menuconfig"
change tuxonice.conf accordingly

External Sources

Installation tutorial (German)
x40 Installation tutorial using acpi (German)

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