Linux on a Gateway Solo 2500 Laptop

Hi, my name is Louis Charles Candell (Juarez) and I'm from Stanton, CA., which is an unincorporated section of Orange County, California. I'm more than happy in helping you along the way if you contribute some funds through my Paypal account, otherwise, the information on this page is all I can offer at this time and is to the best of my knowledge correct.

I'm going to describe the installation of a Gentoo (GNU/Linux) distribution on a Gateway Solo 2500 laptop including; this includes sound, networking, X-server, USB, infrared port and modem. You should also check out the following sites:

• http://www.linux-laptop.net
• http://www.mobilix.org/

Disclaimer: Linux on a Gateway Solo 2500 HOWTO was started on 03/09/10 at 00:21:23 UTC. The instructions below work on my laptop, but I cannot guarantee or take responsibility for any and all damages the described installation below may cause on your own hardware, so please use the provided instructions at your own risk!

Specifications:

• Intel Pentium 200 MMX (i586)
• 128MB EDO RAM (32MB on board, two free slots)
• 12.1" TFT Display, max. resolution 1024x768 (16M) with 2.5 MB Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 1).
• Texas Instruments TI-1210 card bus controller(s).
• USB, serial parellel, zoomed video, VGA, PS/2, IRA, microphone, line input, headphone output, speaker output, floppy, CD-ROM.
• 16 bit Neomagic MagicWave 3DX (opl3sa2) Yamaha OPL compatible chipset.
• Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) 10/100Mbit + 56K Combo Ethernet / LAN PCMCIA Card.
• Lithium Ion Battery (lasts a good 4-6 hours!)
• IBM-DARA-206000, ATA Disk Drive (6.1GB)

Introduction:

My Gateway Solo 2500 (Part No. 3500420) came with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional installed, but I removed it due to me not having the original installation CD or registration number. In other words, this laptop is 100% Linux and runs Microsoft Windows 95 (Revision B) inside of Linux through an x86 emulation program known as:

• BOCHS