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    Success with Linux on Aspire 5672WLMi :)

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by DrStrangeLove, Feb 21, 2006.

  1. DrStrangeLove

    DrStrangeLove Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all!

    Good news for the 5672 owners who are also linux fans! SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 from http://www.mepis.org/node/1462 works like charm on the laptop! Good X support, detected sound and ethernet card on its own. Now, I am trying to get the wireless working. Will keep you updated!
     
    DrStrangeLove, Feb 21, 2006
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    cheziyi Notebook Consultant

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    well, good for you. Other more popular distributions that also work with laptops perfectly are suse and ubuntu.
     
    cheziyi, Feb 21, 2006
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    Ubuntu didnt work with the X1400 graphics card and didnt recognize the ethernet card too. Didnt try Suse, although.
     
    DrStrangeLove, Feb 21, 2006
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    Fedora Core 4 works well too. Just pass on 'noacpi' option during boot time.
     
    DrStrangeLove, Feb 28, 2006
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    I have already install fedora core 4 in my aspire 5672, but it always hang during boot time when it loading the PCMCIA service,do you know why is it happen?
     
    kelvin_team, Mar 13, 2006
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    the same thing happens for me too!
     
    tejaspadekar, Mar 19, 2006
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    lir Notebook Enthusiast

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    guys can you pass on some more comments regarding your linux
    experience on the 5672 model?

    thanks.
     
    lir, Apr 18, 2006
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    shadcrkd Newbie

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    Does ubuntu and slax work with this computer with the livecd distros?
     
    shadcrkd, Apr 18, 2006
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    gentoo works ... well obviously.

    I'm having the same problem with pcmcia though. And i didn't yet try to get the webcam to work. However everything else does, brilliantly.

    currently runningnice showoff XGL+compiz on the X1400 without any problems

    looking into pcmcia and webcam now.

    (btw for some reason the default window installation often refuses to shutdown, waiting for "erecovery" or something. rather annoying.)
     
    derk, Jul 2, 2006
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  10. defsquad

    defsquad Notebook Guru

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    anymore updates on your linux experiences with this laptop? was having some problems with ubuntu 6.06 out of the box as well.
     
    defsquad, Aug 16, 2006
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    hanging on PCMCIA booting is usually an ACPI issue. Only way I know of to fix this is to just disable PCMCIA/hotplug, or boot with noacpi.
     
    Pitabred, Aug 16, 2006
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    I installed Kubuntu Dapper (6.06) and have almost everything working,

    X1400 works, but after a lot of tweaking and a lot of time invested.

    Sound works, wifi works, usb works, ati work...
     
    CaCo.Fusion, Aug 20, 2006
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    The problem might be that cardmgr's default list of "allowed memory regions"
    in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts defaults to the following;

    include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

    You may need to configure it differently for your laptop. If you do a cat /proc/ioports and you see something like...

    0800-087f : Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller
    0880-08bf : Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller

    You have a problem. When cardmgr tries to probe that region, it hangs the machine. The solution is to change /etc/pcmcia.config.opts line to

    include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

    To exclude it from probing the 0x800-0x8ff memory range.
     
    jas, Aug 21, 2006
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    wifi worked out of the box? you didn't have to manually install the intel ipw3945 drivers?
     
    defsquad, Aug 27, 2006
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    I'm gonna take a stab at resurrecting this thread since I'm interested in trying linux on the 5672.

    I was just recently looking into Ubuntu 7.10. Has anybody got all the hardware to work properly?
     
    gino_lee, Dec 28, 2007
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