Samsung NC 10

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

Laptop Specifications

Hardware specs may vary.

Install driver packages

root #emerge --ask media-libs/libva-intel-driver x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools sys-apps/915resolution x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

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