I want to install leopard on this laptop The Gateway® P-7805u FX Edition. I have the IPC distro 10.5.6 PPF 5 and I was wondering what would be the drivers/packages to pick to make sure the hardware works right?

Any other suggestions (like other Distro's Kalyway,Ideneb, or Leo4all) or experiences would be much appreciated.


The specs are:

Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor1 P8400 (2.26GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache)

Operating System Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit) with SP12

Color FX Premium Design with brushed metal keyboard surround and high-impact composite finish
Memory 4096MB 1066MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory (2-2048MB modules)
Hard Drive 320GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive6

Chassis Chassis with NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GTS Graphics with 1GB of GDDR3 Discrete Video Memory and Intel® PM45 Chipset
Adapter AC Adapter
Application Software Microsoft® Works 9.0SE, Microsoft® Money Essentials & Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 (60-day complimentary trial period)5

Battery 9-Cell Lithium Ion 86.58 Whr (2.6AHr)
Digital Media Software Microsoft® Windows Media Player 11, Cyberlink® Power2 Go™, & Cyberlink® LabelPrint™
Dimensions (Box) 15.5" (H) x 19" (W) x 6.5" (D) or 394mm (H) x 485mm (W) x 165mm (D)
Dimensions (System) 1.3"-1.70" (H) x 15.75" (W) x 11.75" (D) or 33-43mm (H) x 400mm (W) x 298mm (D)
Display 17" High-Definition Widescreen WXGA+ Display (1440 x 900)
Expansion Slots ExpressCard™ Type 54
External Ports (3) USB 2.0, VGA Connector, IEEE 1394b, eSATA Port, V1.2 HDMI Connector
Keyboard and Mouse Full-Size Keyboard, Synaptics Touchpad with Vertical Scroll
Media Card Reader 5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader (Memory Stick™, Memory Stick™ Pro, Multi Media Card™, Secure Digital™, xD-Picture Card™)
Memory Capacity Maximum 4GB
Modem 56K ITU V.92 ready Fax/Modem (RJ-11 port)
Multimedia Buttons Illuminated Metal Precision-Touch Multimedia Buttons
Network 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 port)
Optical Drive 8x Multi-Format Dual Layer DVDRW and DVD-RAM featuring Labelflash™ Technology8

Security Software Symantec Norton 360™ 2008 (60-day trial)7

Sound High-Definition Audio- 2 Channel, Built-In speakers, microphone, headphone/SPDIF Audio Out
Warranty 1 Year Parts and Labor + Toll Free9

Web Camera 1.3 Megapixel Integrated Webcam
Weight 9.05 lbs. (4.11 kg) system unit only / 12.64 lbs. (5.73 kg.) box
Wireless Network Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGN 802.11a/g/Draft-N Wireless LAN

Looks great, did you try alredy?

Try to put the device name of the following:
Ethernet adapter
audio device

For now you could try with this:
Chipset: Intel ICHX sata driver
Fixes: ACPI Fix and PS/2 Keyboad
Video: NVdarwin 512M (with this you won't have got a black screen...)

When you boot, do it with cpus=1
And then of the registration you can do this to get best performance with the video card:

Instal the 9000 Series Driver (RapidShare: Easy Filehosting)
Reboot
Modify the info.plist NVDANV50Hal.kext and substitute the device id 062A -> 062X (you have to search your device id (form system info ==> graphic card)
Remove NVDAResman.kext (make a backup first)
Use Osx86Tools to create EFI Strings! Reboot

With this you can get 512MB and CI but not QE

Try with this, if you dind't understand something, ask me, and sorry my english is too bad

I hope you successful