Hi, Ask not "will this work on Gentoo", rather ask "will this work on Linux"! You'll get much better responses to your research on google at least. If it works on any mainstream Linux distribution, there's a 99.9% chance it will work on Gentoo.
For example, I just did a google search for "NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M linux" and found out in a few seconds that it probably works with nvidia-drivers 260.19.06, but not nouveau (open source drivers). http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers tells me that nvidia-drivers 260.19.06 and 260.19.12 are hard-masked because they're in the beta phase, so you may or may not have success with them. You can repeat that search ("hardware-device linux") for all the usual problematic hardware that you decide you "must have" working: * video camera * wireless * ethernet * bluetooth * audio however you need the actual chip or vendor name, for example "Intel PRO/Wireless 4965" not just "Integrated 802.11". The specs you gave are a bit light on those details. The best way to do this is run lspci on the box in the store as someone mentioned. Yes you will be able to install Linux on it for sure. Still not sure about 100% hardware compatibility. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children.
