Samsung NC 10

This is an article about running Gentoo on an Samsung NC 10 series laptop.

Laptop Specifications
Hardware specs may vary. These are the specs for the model 10CA.M006.20090716.RHU:



emerge x11-libs/libva-intel-driver x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools

Problems
The i915 card is really unique in X and boot behaviour.

Problems with kernel 3.2
Use these boot settings for X:

vga=0x315 acpi=force i915.modeset=1 i915.lvds_use_ssc=0 i915.i915_enable_rc6=1

Problems with kernel 3.4
Use these boot settings for X:

vga=0x315 acpi=force pcie_aspm=force i915.modeset=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_use_ssc=0 i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 drm.vblankoffdelay=1 irqpoll