This article may help you to get a fully working installation directly supporting suspend to ram - disk, containing all the drivers, etc. Of course it's possible that there are issues I'm not aware of, especially if they are related to features I don't use.

As the compilation of all the source codes on the netbook itself is a quite time-consuming task, I may provide you a "snapshot" of a disk partition (result of a "tar -cjpf" of the partition) with a complete installation. Size of the archive is about 2GB, and in general all you need to do is extract it to a destination filesystem (and perform some minor tweaks regarding partition numbering, etc.)

USE flags

When it comes to USE flags, I maintain a minimalistic approach, i.e. I do add new use flags to make.conf or package.use only when I install new packages. I.e. I do not enter various unnecessary ballast "in advance" so my make.conf contains just these global USE flags

USE="-gtk -gnome kde qt4 alsa qt3 qt3support bluetooth consolekit"

and package.use (split into 3 files in the directory) contains just 30 rows. You may download a complete make.conf, as well as a complete package.use (directory packaged as a .tgz archive).

Kernel config

Kernel config is not difficult if you've done that before - it's pointless to discuss individual options here, the easiest way is to check the .config directly. I don't say the kernel config is minimal (there may be some unneeded options), but it works ;-)

Wifi card

The only driver that is not part of the kernel (at least in 2.6.30-gentoo-r6) is a wifi card (Ralink RT2860)  driver, available here. To compile it successfully you need a prepared kernel (i.e. a kernel after executing at least "make prepare" but optimally you should execute the complete "make").

If the kernel is prepared, you have to download the driver, unpack it and modify the "os/linux/config.mk" file according to instructions from README_STA, that is set the following two variables

• HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT
• HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT

If you plan to use a "wext" driver (switch "-Dwext"), set both variables to "y", if you plan to use "ralink" driver (sqitch "-Dralink"), set the second variable to "n." I wanted to use the "wext" driver but it did not work for some reason - the nebtook connected to the AP (using a WPA-PSK), but all request for an IP lease timed out. After switching to a "ralink" everything works fine so I do recommend this settings

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n

Then you need to create a file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and define the network in it, e.g. something like this (for more examples and details see "man wpa_supplicant.conf"):

network={
    ssid="your SSID"
    scan_ssid=1
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    pairwise=TKIP
    group=TKIP
    psk="your password"
}

Then you should put these two lines to /etc/conf.d/net so that a wpa_supplicant is used for ra0

modules_ra0=("wpa_supplicant")
wpa_supplicant_ra0=("-Dralink")

and create a starting script for ra0 interface

# cd /etc/init.d
# ln -s net.lo net.ra0

and then start the wifi interface

# /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start

If you've done everything properly the interface should start successfully and connect to the given AP.

Xorg-server - installation and startup

Installation of an X Window environment - namely xorg-server version 1.6.3.901 - is more or less painless, although I've had some hard times. You have to define what drivers should be used for video cards (VIDEO_CARDS) and for input devices (INPUT_DEVICES) in make.conf.

At the end I've used this settings

VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev"

During the installation I've struggled with an issue that the twm window manager (a minimalistic environment) started successfully but then the environment stopped to respond to keyboard, mouse, etc. After about an hour I've found that the xorg-server was compiled with a HAL support,  but the hald daemon is not running - so I do recommend to start it and add it to the default runlevel

# /etc/init.d/hald start
# rc-update add hald default

The next step is to configure the X environment - it starts successfully even without a config file thanks to an autodetection, but if you don't like some touchpad settings (as I do), you have to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf config file and modify the settings in it.

You don't have to start from an empty file, the initial xorg.conf may be generated using the the autodetection and then modified. Generating and moving it to /etc/X11/ is quite trivial

# X -configure
# mv xorg.conf /etc/X11/
# nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and then just add the following section for the touchpad (using the "synaptics" driver).

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier  "touchpad"
      Driver      "synaptics"
      Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
      Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
      Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
      Option      "MotionScrollDelta" "0"
      Option      "MaximumTapTime" "200"
      Option      "ClickTime" "50"
      Option      "MaxTapMove" "320"
      Option      "MaxDoubleTapTime" "5"
      Option      "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
      Option      "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
      Option      "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
      Option      "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
      Option      "SingleTapTimeout" "100"
      Option      "FastTabs" "1"
      Option      "VScrollEmulOff" "1"
      Option      "VertScrollDelta" "80"
      Option      "HorizScrollDelta" "80"
      Option      "SHMConfig" "1"
      Option      "CircularScrolling" "0"
      Option      "TapButton1" "1"
      Option      "TapButton3" "2"
      Option      "TapButton2" "3"
EndSection

And then add a reference to it to the "ServerLayout"

Section "ServerLayout"
      Identifier     "X.org Configured"
      Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
      InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
      InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
      InputDevice    "touchpad"
EndSection

More details about the synaptics may be found at the driver's homepage or at a very detailed article at gentoo-wiki (including practical examples of a configuration). My xorg.conf may be downloaded here.

By the way, when configuring the xorg-server, it's a good idea to start a ssh server - in case the X will stop reacting to input devices (and if you interfere with the xorg.conf config file it may happen quite easily), you may still connect from a different machine and kill the X remotely. Otherwise you'd be unable even to swich to a console as the keyboard is dead.

KDE 4.3

Installation of the KDE 4.3.2 environment was absolutely troublefree - just follow the Gentoo KDE guide. Briefly said, if you don't have a previous KDE version istalled (4.2 or even  3.5) then the only thing you need to do is entering keywords into /etc/portage/package.keywords (as the 4.3 branch is still masked), and then execute

# emerge kde-meta:4.3

By this the KDE 4.3 installation should be done. Then just set  XSESSION="kde-4.3" in /etc/rc.conf and DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" in /etc/conf.d/xdm.

Conclusion

The result should be a fully working Gentoo system with KDE 4.3 interface, supporting all the netbook Eee PC 1000H devices (except a web cam I don't use). In case of any problems just let me know ;-)