Linux on Acer 1410, 1810TZ and 1810T

by terminal do you mean windows command line? you have to launch it from windows DO NOT attempt to run it with wine or another compatibility layer as it will fail or who knows what else. I have updated my BIOS successfully from windows just by double clicking the file. Worked like a charm; I was actually impressed at how well it worked.

 

The problem about bios upgrade is how to do when one (me!) don’t have windows on the compute. In the past bios upgrade programs can be launch from freedos but the actual need windows… So you need to find something like Windows live USB. All I try don’t work for the moment it’s not as easy as linux live usb.

 

Hi,

has anyone tried to inject packets under Ubuntu 9.10? It *should* run out-of-the-box with Intel 5100 agn and 9.10 but it didn´t work in my tests with my Linksys WRT54GS router..

 

Patrick, your're right, seems that power.sh is run twice.
Anyone knows why?

Furthermore I tried:
- echo Y > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save_controller

to power off sound controller, gives a soft click. But powers automatically on at the moment you need it.

- enabled laptop mode (/etc/default/acpi-support)
- set swappiness to 1 (echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness)
- muted sound

Gave me 7.6 watts running with wifi and harddisk standby, reading and scrolling a PDF.
Funny thing is that power-usage seems to be less with wifi powermanagement enabled than with disabling networking at all.

WIFI power management is running fine with G standard, but I had problems with N, long waits up to 5 seconds.
Speed with N is good, throughput of 6,5-7 MB/s while just 2,4 for G.

 

How can i edit the that?

 

If you have followed the first post instructions on how to make acerhdf take over the fan control, in the file /etc/modprobe.d/acerhdf.conf:

Code:

options acerhdf kernelmode=1 fanon=60000 fanoff=50000

In this example, the fan starts everytime the temperature reaches 60ºC and stops when down to 50ºC. You can ajust that the way you'd like, just keep in mind that fanon has to be a higher temperature than fanoff, otherwise the fan would never stop. Also, if fanon and fanoff aren't too distant (fanon=60000 and fanoff=58000) or too low values, the fan will spin very often.

Hope I've been clear enough

Patrick

 

Thanks!
What value is recommended?
my 1810TZ comes up to 63 º C when I see a youtube video, it's normal?

 

Does someone know how to set these values via the command line (for a start script), as the settings sometimes get lost after a reboot?

 

hi,

i've acerhdf running fine.
but one cumbersome issue: on battery the fan turns off when i plug in the ac adaptor the fan starts. very slow and silent but there is no reason, plugging off stop the fan again. any ideas how to fix that?

thanks a lot,
gregor

 

This has to do with the values to plug in the EC.. and on the 1410/1810 system board, it has two sets of values - one for A/C, and one for battery. The only value shared between the two is "back to BIOS control", and that's screaming all the time on my 1410.

I figured battery is better than A/C for power reasons, and set it that way.

The only way to truly fix it is to re-write the acerhdf.. which I don't have the time to do.

 

Hi all,

i have an 1810T 734G50n with an integrated GSM/UMTS modem from Huawei (EM770W). It is controlled using simple AT commands over /dev/ttyUSB0, so i searched the web, played around with the AT command reference myself and came up with my own wvdial.conf:

Code:

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0

[Dialer chipname]
Init1 = AT+GMM

[Dialer reset]
Init1 = AT+CFUN=1
Init2 = AT+CFUN=4
Init3 = AT+CFUN=6

[Dialer powersafe]
Init1 = AT+CFUN=0

[Dialer online]
Init1 = AT+CFUN=1

[Dialer offline]
Init1 = AT+CFUN=4

[Dialer mode]
Init1 = AT+CFUN?

[Dialer netlist]
Init1 = AT+COPS=?

[Dialer netinfo]
Init1 = AT+COPS?

[Dialer reginfo]
Init1 = AT+CREG?

[Dialer pin]
Init1 = AT+CPIN=1234

[Dialer login]
Phone = *99#
Username = simyo
Password = simyo
Stupid Mode = 1
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de","",0,0

Using that i can dial into my providers network by typing:

Code:

# wvdial pin
# wvdial login

The other dial targets in wvdial.conf are for status information retrieval and power control. Sometimes the chip gets confused (e.g. by (re-)inserting the SIM) resulting in [pin] and [login] throwing errors. I was able to recover control over the chip in some of these cases using:

Code:

# wvdial reset

I did not test if [powersafe] or [offline] reduce the systems energy consumtion remarkably. Would be nice to read some comments, espacially on connection quality and link speed. I can not push the chip to its limits as my current network provider has near to no 3G hardware in operation :.(

 

Sad… i have exactly the same problem. My packardbell dot/mu 020 is way too noisy on A/C than on power. In fact when I plug in the A/C power the fan go on immediatly. It seem’s that upgading the bios is a solution, but I can manage to do this (no windows on this computer and the bios upgrade only work with windows, no DOS).

 

Hi guys, please help me out, i've installed alsa driver and now i have no sound at all... i'm noob in linux, have bo idea how to rill back to standard driver...

edit: problem solved!

 

Hi,

Thanks to all of you for your help on making my brand new 1810TZ work (almost) perfectly with GNU/Linux.

I have been trying to get gnome-power-manager control the brightness when switching from AC to battery (and back to AC), but it doesn't work (the brightness is always the on I set using the FN keys).

I have seen any related topics, but the same thing happens on both Debian sid and Ubuntu 9.10.

Note that g-p-m is correctly configured (or at least, I think!) and when setting the brightness when on AC in its preferences window, the brightness is actually changed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Julien

 

i'm new to linux, and trying out ubuntu. i got the fan and sleep issues fixed by the advice in this thread. thanks!
i have a question though. i am using "sensors applet" to monitor my cpu temp. it gives me 3 temperatures core0, core1, and temp1
temp1 seems to be much higher than windows 7 was when just browsing normal websites. which temp is supposed to be comparable to the one found in 1810tray? which one should i worry about?

also, i'm trying out screenlets as a widget layer in compiz, and it one of the cpu performance monitors gives me the option of CPU0, CPU1, and CPU2... which ones should i be using? the cpu % jumps around a lot more than my windows cpu monitor, is this normal?

i'm on a 1410 with 2300 processor.

over all, this feels much snappier, but i'm a little confused by the higher temp and % readings

 

I finally got the microphone to work with skype.. this assumes you have either the correct alsa driver (1.0.20 kernel drivers minimum), or Fedora 12 with the lastest kernel.

It's done using alsamixer. Open a terminal window, and start 'alsamixer -c0 -Vcapture'

You'll see 2 sets of bars..

The left channel in 'Front Mic Boost' and 'Capture' is the Internal mic, on the bezel, next to the video camera; the right channel is the microphone plug.

Select 'Front Mic Boost', and hit the 'q' key 3 times. Hit right arrow, and then hit 'q' 9 times. the column labeled 'Input Source' should be 'Front Mic'.

Hit the 'ESC' key to exit, and the internal mic should work now.

 

genius!!!

Skype works fine this way! Until now, the only thing I could make skype work was setting the output (yeah, output) to left or right only.. then it would work.

This is a much better solution, thanks!

I'll add this valuable piece of information into the guide this weekend.

 

hi all!!

I have found an even better solution to make skype work!!!

launch it in a terminal this way:

Code:

/bin/sh -c "PULSE_SERVER=127.0.0.1 skype"

This will launch skype falling back to ALSA. After that, you can open alsamixer and adjust the capture settings as desired, doing call tests. Once you've found the desired settings, you are done. Try launching skype that way and see how it does.

Using the other method, with pulse audio, I had some nasty noises. This way, although I haven't had a chat yet, the test call seemed to work better.

The solution isn't mine, I found it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8881992&postcount=692

I'd love to have some feedback as it is working or not!

 

Yup, it works -- huzzah!

It produces plenty of repetitions of the following error message

Code:

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

...probably something to do with the fact that I've toggled bluetooth off.

Nonetheless the microphone now works quite normally with skype -- terrific!

 

Hi everyone,

I'm using my 1810TZ since a couple of month now. I'm running Mandriva 2010.

I'm having often unpredictable crashes, they are very annoying: Sometimes only X crashes, sometimes all the system crashes (even the magic keys didn't work).

So I'm trying to find where the crashes came from.

Inspecting var/log/messages, I noted a boot warning:

Code:

DMAR:DRHD base: 0x00000000000000 flags: 0x1
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:183 dmar_table_init+0x164/0x35a()
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: Hardware name: Aspire 1810TZ
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address zero!
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: BIOS vendor: INSYDE; Ver: v1.3303; Product Version: v1.3303
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: Modules linked in:
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: Call Trace:
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8105b4ab>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7b/0xc0
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8105b551>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff81675523>] dmar_table_init+0x164/0x35a
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8165cb4b>] enable_IR_x2apic+0x12/0x17e
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8165a710>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x126/0x35a
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8164e508>] kernel_init+0x56/0x1a6
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff810130ea>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff8164e4b2>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1a6
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd:  [<ffffffff810130e0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
Mar  4 12:05:05 localhost klogd: ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---

This warning can be related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533952
Do you have the same issue with Ubuntu, Mandriva or any other distro?

And also several:

Code:

Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-4: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-2: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-4: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-2: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-4: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-2: no EDID data
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i2c-adapter i2c-4: unable to read EDID block.
Mar  4 12:05:06 localhost klogd: i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-2: no EDID data

Do you also have these crashes and/or warnings?

Do you know how what to check to resolve these incomprehensible problems?

 

No issues with Ubuntu.

 

Hi Beurt,

With BIOS 1.3303 AND Ubuntu kernel 2.6.31-20-generic I'm still getting the superfluous messages about inability to read the EDID block, but have never, with any kernel version, seen the warning about BIOS breakage or experienced any crashes.

 

I have my 1410-2920 running both Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with Ubuntu 9.10 (dual boot), and I'm not having any issues with Ubuntu on there. I didn't test every single thing on it, but all the major players (e.g. wireless, display, audio) all work just fine. The trackpad is a little bit erratic to use, and there was a lot of tweaking in order to get that working just right. It's quick which is good, and can't wait to get Ubuntu 10.04 as that should make it even quicker (hopefully).

 

If you try the lastest Ubuntu 10.04, I found with my 1410 I had to add to the kernel/grub line i915.modeset=0 or I would get harsh mouse pointer flicker and some window refresh glitches. Under the latest daily build it seems EVERYTHING works including the mic after adjusting alsamixer.

 

I'm not sure where I got the .fd file from, but I finally figured out how to update the bios on a 1410/1810 without having a boot disk..

Get a USB flash drive, format it to be about 1GB in size, having a VFAT32 filesystem on it..

Place the .fd file on the drive.

Power down the laptop, press and hole down fn-esc, and press power on.

Now, WAIT. You'll see drive lights flashing, the power light flashing, a totally black screen, and the fan screaming. It will reboot when done..

when it comes back, you've just flashed to the version of firmware in the .fd file; in this case, it's called ZH7X64.fd

 

First off, thanks for this very helpful thread. I've been able to solve a couple of really annoying problems. One thing that I'm still really anxious to get working, though:

Are there any plans to include that in the near future? Would be much appreciated!

 

I can vouche for using 10.04 on 1810tz upgrading is easily done Alt+F2 update-manager -d. Ive been using it for 3 days now, its not perfectly stable yet but damn its quick

 

Thanks for the thread! Having a bit of trouble with the fan control, any ideas?

Code:

FATAL: Error inserting acerhdf (/lib/modules/2.6.33.1-26.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko): No such device

dmidecode show the following:

Code:

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Acer
	Product Name: Aspire 1810TZ
	Version: v1.3308
	Serial Number: LXPM5020940080B0E72500
	UUID: 6B3D4DF9-C919-734B-A5A6-FFE9DE775DB4
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Montevina_Fab
	Family: Intel_Mobile

I've added the below with no luck?

Code:

	/* Acer 1810TZ */
	{"Acer", "Aspire 1810TZ", "v1.3308", 0x55, 0x58, {0x9e, 0x9e, 0x00} },

dmesg shows:

acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.22
acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/Aspire 1810TZ/v1.3308, please report, aborting!


Many thanks. This is a Fedora 12 64bit install with kernel 2.6.33.1-26.fc13.x86_64


EDIT: I'm an idiot, add bios 3308 to the bottom when I should have edited the 1810TZ section. It is now working, thanks!

 

bios v1.3308? Wow, that one is not even in the acer website! Is a very new machine?

 

Yup, just arrived yesterday! Still has the broken BIOS bug listed in post 10. Even with the 2.6.34 git2 generic kernel I just compiled.

Your how-to is awesome, thanks!

 

I haven't seen that error you mention. Actually, none of the ubuntu user are seing that, and I though it was said the bug was only present in red hat, mandriva, fedora..

 

Yup, this was a generic kernel build, perhaps reintroduced by a recent patch?

Any news on the undervolt mod?

Thanks!

 

ubuntu isn't using a new enough kernel.

 

2Post author:
It's 0.5.23 version of acerhdf out, so better to link to the project page rather than any current version http://piie.net/index.php?section=acerhdf

 

Hello,

Thanks a lot for this thread.
I've a problem with fan.
I've installed acerhdf 0.5.22 without problem, but when I've typed « modprobe acerhdf », I've had this error:

Code:

[modprobe.d] modprobe acerhdf
FATAL: Error inserting acerhdf (/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko.gz): No such device

And dmesg message:

Code:

[modprobe.d] dmesg|grep acerhdf
acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.16
acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/Aspire 1810TZ/v0.3115, please report, aborting!

I've added this « {"Acer", "Aspire 1810TZ", "v0.3115", 0x55, 0x58, {0x9e, 0x9e, 0x00} }, » in the acerhdf.c file.

How can I solve this, please?!

Thanks a lot

Nico

 

As you can see, the modprobe error tells you have version 0.5.16, so you haven't actually installed 0.5.22. Follow all acerhdf steps listed in the first page again and make sure you don't get any errors compiling or installing.

 

In order to help everyone, a synthesis of the installation of Ubuntu on on the Aspire 1410 /1810 can be found here :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Aspire1810TZ/Karmic.

 

Hi to all. I'm new to Linux, but I decided that it's never late to start. So I installed Kubuntu 9.10 in dual boot with Windows 7. Everything seems to work fine, except for the battery life. Therefore I have a lame question: will this guide work in Kubuntu? For instance, the brightness part doesn't help, it still jumps 2 positions (btw, manually turning on the bluetooth changes the brightness 1 position up, that's weird). If not, then is there anything like this for Kubuntu?
Anyway, this thread is great. Patrick, thank you. Wish some day I will know this much
Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker

 

I've tried again compilaton, and I've no errors, no?! :

Code:

[acerhdf_kmod] make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/build  SUBDIRS=/home/nicollivier/acerhdf_kmod modules
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb »                    
  CC [M]  /home/nicollivier/acerhdf_kmod/acerhdf.o                                               
  Building modules, stage 2.                                                                     
  MODPOST 1 modules                                                                              
  CC      /home/nicollivier/acerhdf_kmod/acerhdf.mod.o                                           
  LD [M]  /home/nicollivier/acerhdf_kmod/acerhdf.ko                                              
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb »                        
[acerhdf_kmod] su                                                                                
Password:                                                                                        
[acerhdf_kmod] make install                                                                      
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/build  SUBDIRS=/home/nicollivier/acerhdf_kmod modules
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb »                    
  Building modules, stage 2.                                                                     
  MODPOST 1 modules                                                                              
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb »                        
rm -f /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/misc/acerhdf.ko                         
cp acerhdf.ko /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/                   
depmod -a 

Thanks a lot

Nico

 

oh yeah..

try this:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko

and the do dmesg, does it work?

I think somebody said in an earlier post he found a .ko.gz module that was being loaded instead of the newer .ko one. The deleted the original module and then he could load the new on.

You could try this: sudo updatedb first, and the sudo locate acerhdf

what's the output?

 

=>

Code:

[nicollivier] dmesg | grep acerhdf
acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.22
acerhdf: Fan control off, to enable do:
acerhdf: echo -n "enabled" > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

=>

Code:

/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko.gz
/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/include/config/acerhdf.h

So which acerhdf.ko* I must deleted?!

Thanks a lot for your help

Nico

 

Question for you all.
Have any of you managed to use the voice functionality using the EM770W 3g chip under linux yet?

Been playing around with this, and can do everything from send an sms to make and receive calls. But no sound comes out of the device.

Anyone had any luck using this yet?

Thanks

 

FYI, BIOS 3310 has been posted on Acer's site. They only mention a fix for flashing LG LCDs, but who knows!

 

/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko.gz

Remove this one: sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko.gz
sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe acerhdf

now it works?

 

Yes, now it's OK

Thanks a lot

I'm going to come back here to other questions about this notebook

Nico

 

Anyone here managed to use GMA4500MHD hardware acceleration video playback on Linux?
It seems like the intel driver supports it ( http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html see the instructions at the bottom at the page). It should be possible to use mplayer-vaapi, libva and the latest intel driver in order to play hd videos. Win7 with DXVA2 does it almost flawlessly.

 

I'm compiling it right now.. will report back later!

 

I hope you did not change your mind? You are the only hope! I've tried it, but no luck at all.

 

If I was your only hope.. then I think it's game over! xD

So, I did sort of success. I built the vaapi-mplayer, built the libva stuff, built the vaapi intel driver and.. loaded.

BUT, big BUT, I couldn't view any movies with mplayer.

What I did:

I grabbed the libva stuff from git from here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libva/. From here I built the libva stuff and the intel vaapi driver, and installed it in /usr/lib, drivers in /usr/lib/va/drivers.

Then I built the vaapi enabled Mplayer.

Ok, so am I ready to launch the vaapi mplayer? Yes. But everytime it failed.. issues with unsupported codec for the output format and so on. I then tried the HW decode demos ( http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/hwdecode-demos/) and mpeg4, vc1 and h264 didn't work, only the mpeg2.

So... I sent a mail and this is the response I got:

So for now that's it.. I haven't checked the H.264 branch though, maybe on Saturday... My feeling is that, right now, vaapi is useless on the Acer 1810TZ, since only mpeg2 works but nearly no HD stuff is Mpeg2 encoded, and standard mpeg2 stuff works just fine.

 

Wow man, at least it explains everything! I could not find this info myself.
Thanks a lot!!!!!!