[ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?

[Matt Graham]

>> Soren Harward wrote:
>>>>I'm considering making the leap from Mandriva to Gentoo on the A22p.

There's been plenty of good advice about using distcc in this thread.  An=
yway,
the A22p should work just fine as long as you give it enough time to do s=
tuff.
 Do a stage3 install; the benefits from a stage1 install are minimal.  It=
 took
about 12 hours to get KDE 3.4 compiled on an A22p, even with distcc runni=
ng on
a faster desktop.  Xorg took about an hour.  Remember to prelink -afmR af=
ter
emerging everything; that should make KDE apps start faster.

You'll want to put in 20-150 for Hsync and 10-400 for Vsync in your xorg.=
conf
, since if you use the autodetected values, you'll be stuck with 1600x120=
0 as
the only Mode that works.  You may want smaller modes for things like gam=
es
and movies.