Gentoo on a laptop

This page contains additional information for installing Gentoo on a laptop computer.

Networking

• It's highly recommended to install the NetworkManager (it will be pulled as a dependency by emerging knetworkmanager) as it allows to easily connect to networks through a GUI. You can change networks easily.

Touchpad

• To support the touchpad the kernel should be configured with PS/2 mouse support and INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf should contain "synaptics".
• The xorg.conf file should have the following section:

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Identifier "TouchPad"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

• Link on the Gentoo wiki.