Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

[Daniel Goller]

> Now that I'm an AMD64 laptop Gentoo user I would like a concise way of
> communicating back to my community the AMD64 users and specifically the laptop
> users. In fact I'd like to know what other people are using the Compaq Presario
> V2000Z AMD Turion64. I'd also like to know what software they're running on
> their laptops and if they consider it stable. What kernel configurations they're
> using. What functionality is broken and what needs to be fixed.

I enjoy using a V2000Z ( V2311US ) as my development machine, it runs
kde 3.5 well (even so, i am back on my beloved icewm), kmail with it's
customizable panes had been most enjoyable for email on a 14" widescreen
thus far, but the new masked evolution with USE=widescreen seems to be
replacing it rather quickly.
I prefer modular Xorg (7.0) with EXA acceleration in 2D by far over the
binary drivers with either 6.8.2 or xorg 7. (3D will have to wait until
someone gets dri working on shared memory laptops)
I patch my kernel so i can "undervolt" it, i had been compiling at 90C
at 1600mhz and a -e world (Gotta test gcc-4.1 some day) for days seemed
out of question, now i compile at ~60C at 1600mhz, which i guess makes
me a "preservist". (i mean preserving hardware, not battery capacity, as
the savings at 800MHz are less impressive thus battery life while
working in a text editor/web/irc/email is not affected by it much) (if
you love to compile while being unplugged the difference should be quite
nice :)
For wireless i still prefer ndiswrapper over bcm43xx.
I did keep windows around although the one thing i do most often from
there is flash my bios, so it does not see too much use.
I still can't use the memory card reader.
But there is so much that works reliably on here i do not miss that thus
far.
I do not have suspend to disk set up right now, swsusp worked fine,
suspend2 i always had a harder time getting working, what i typically
use is suspend to ram which now works flawless.

If you have any particular questions, let me know, this is what came to
mind on a more general basis.

Daniel