How to configure the Linux kernel for a Gateway GX7022E computer

Gateway GX7022E Media Center Computer [1] Model: GX7022E

Specifications

• Processor:Intel® Pentium® D processor 830
• Chipset: Intel 945G chipset with ICH7R
• Memory: Installed: 2048 MB DDR2 533 MHz (PC4200) SDRAM
• Video: NVIDIA 6200 64 MB TurboCache video card
• TV Tuner Card: ATI Theater 550 Pro TV tuner card
• Audio: Intel High Definition Audio subsystem: Sigmatel 9223 codec
• Hard Drive: 320 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA hard drive
• Optical Drives
  • DVD +/- RW, 16X Multi-Format Double Layer drive
  • DVD-ROM drive
• Media Reader: 8-in-1 Digital Media Manager
• Modem: 56K ITU V.92 ready Fax/Modem
• Network: Broadcom 5752 GbE PCIe controller with integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 [2]

Kernel Configuration

Many of the settings below are enabled by default, but it never hurts to check.

Processor

• Location:

  Processor type and features --->

  [*] Symmetric multi-processing support

  Processor family (Generic-x86-64) --->

  (X) Generic-x86-64

  [*] Multi-core scheduler support

System Clock

This is likely already enabled

• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  <*> Real Time Clock --->

  <*> PC-style 'CMOS'

Bus Interfaces

PCI

This is likely already enabled

• Location:

  Bus options (PCI etc.) --->

  [*] PCI support

PCI Express

• Location:

  Bus options (PCI etc.) --->

  [*] PCI Express support

Parallel port

• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  <*> Parallel port support --->

Serial port

This is likely already enabled

• Location:

  Device Drivers --->

  Character devices --->

  Serial drivers --->

  <*> 8250/16550 and compatible serial support

FireWire

• Drivers: ieee1394 ohci1394, sbp2
• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --->

  <*> Stable FireWire stack

  <*> OHCI-1394 controllers

  <M> Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)

I2C

maybe for temp sensors

• Location

  Device Drivers --->

  -*- I2C support --->

USB

USB 1.1, 2.0, and host driver

• Drivers: usbcore, ohci-hcd, ehci-hcd, uhci-hcd
• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  [*] USB support --->

  <*> Support for Host-side USB

  [*] USB device filesystem

  <*> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support

  <*> OHCI HCD support

  <*> UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support

SATA/PATA

• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  <*> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (exp...

  [*] ATA ACPI Support

  <*> AHCI SATA support

  [*] ATA SFF support

  <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support

Keyboard, mouse

Human interface devices (HID)

• Drivers: usbhid
• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  [*] HID Devices --->

  <*> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

PS/2 Mouse

• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  Input device support --->

  [*] Mice --->

  <*> PS/2 mouse

Network

• Broadcom 5752 GbE PCIe controller
• Driver: tg3

  Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards

• Location:

  Device Drivers --->

  [*] Network device support --->

  [*] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->

  <*> Broadcom Tigon3 support

• Loopback device (needed for all network devices)
• Location:

  Device Drivers --->

  [*] Block devices --->

  <*> Loopback device support

Audio

• Intel High Definition Audio subsystem: Sigmatel 9223 codec
• Driver:

  Intel HD Audio

• Location:

  Device Drivers --->

  Sound --->

  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->

  PCI devices --->

  <M> Intel HD Audio

  [*] Build IDT/Sigmatel HD-audio codec support

  [*] Enable generic HD-audio codec parser

If you have problems getting sound to work see: Alsa Matrix:Module-hda-intel

Video

NVIDIA 6200 64 MB TurboCache video card

• Proprietary drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Onboard video card

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Intel 82945G/GZ

• Drivers: i915, drm, agpgart, intel_agp
• Location:

  Device Drivers -->

  Graphics support --->

  <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) --->

  <*> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support

  <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.....

  <M> Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G

  <M> i915 driver

TV Tuner Card

TV Tuner Card ATI Theater 550 Pro TV tuner card

CD/DVD

This is likely already enabled

• Location:

  Device Drivers --->

  <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --->

  <*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support

Media reader

• USB Mass Storage support
• Driver: USB-storage
• Location:

  Device Drivers

  [*] USB support --->

  <*> USB Mass Storage support