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June 2008

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My system, my notebook - xkcd

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xkcd comic rocks! At least for geeks like me us.

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I am an idiot

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And then (another) hardware fails

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As I posted yesterday, I was installing Gentoo/Linux AMD64 on my brand-new Asus M51Sn notebook. The installation itself went pretty smooth, no big problems. By the second day I already had a full desktop working, yet with many small details here and there to be fixed (like sound, bluetooth, touchpad configuration inside X, ...).

Read more to discover what was working and what was not working, and to find out what happened then.

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Installing Gentoo/Linux AMD64 on my notebook

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Well, I've finally received the notebook I bought. It is an Asus M51Sseries, a really cool and powerful notebook. It came with Vista pre-installed. Now it is time to install Gentoo on it.

This post isn't supposed to be a "How to install Gentoo on a laptop". If this is what you want, please read the Gentoo handbook. This post just tries to document what I've done and things that have worked and have failed, with some nice small tips alongside.

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