Everything works 100%
used the intel wireless drivers for 2200: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
sound used the alsa intel8x0 driver: http://alsa.sourceforge.net
Everything else is pretty basic for support

on install of gentoo stage1 the only problem I encountered was with gcc-3.3, 3.3 does not support the pentium-m march= flag, so I had to use pentium3 to upgrade gcc before returning to pentium-m and continuing install

only problem is that the screen does not turn off when closed

Correction, there wa sinitial difficulty getting xorg to use 2 of the widescreen resolutions, to fix it I had to specify them manually int he monitor section of xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LCD"
HorizSync 28.0-96.0
VertRefresh 50.0-75.0
Modeline "1440x900@70" 133.08 1440 1472 1976 2008 900 918 928 946
Modeline "1280x800@75" 111.50 1280 1312 1728 1760 800 815 825 841
EndSection

then in the driver section I had to disable EDID usage:

Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidiaC"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 131072
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
Option "NoDCC" "true"
EndSection

then finally in screens I had to tie it all in to use botht he detected and configured modes:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "ScreenC"
Device "nvidiaC"
Monitor "LCD"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900@70" "1280x800@75" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


and now it works great! the values for modline were generated by 'The XFree86 Modeline Generator' (http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl) and i got the values to use (the max vid card timing) from the /var/log/Xorg-whatever.log I forgot where I was able to get the monitors refresh rates from, it was several hours ago.