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    Suse 9.3 on acer 5672

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by LuckySL, May 8, 2006.

  1. LuckySL

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    Guys this is my first post , hope u will find it helpful.

    A small review :
    Pros : Amazing specs to price ratio
    International Warranty (I bought it in US and use it in India)
    Dual Core rocks and so does 2GB 667 DDR2
    Feels light as compared to the dells (IMHO :eek: )

    Cons : Touchpad gets hot sometimes, but is bearable
    Does not feel as sturdy as some other laptops i have seen (Dell and IBM)
    The external speakers arent powerful enough.
    Some of the software provided by acer doesnt work at all

    I had to start the installation with acpi turned off. The actual installation went on fine, until the part where we select the video devices. My External USB mouse was detected during the device configuration (the last part of installation). My friend couldnt install it on his Dell , had to make work by changing xorg.conf file.
    The video card (x1400) was not listed in the list of video devices so i kept the default configuration - VESA driver.
    After rebooting i followed the steps given here to install drivers for x1400.
    Using sax2 i could use 1280 by 800 res with 24bit colors.
    For the getting back the suse bootsplash image i had to do this:

    shell: hwinfo --frambuffer
    Put the proper mode in tc/grub/menu.lst "vga="
    shell: mkinitrd
    shell: reboot

    After the reboot i had everything exept the network running.
    The network card was detected and configured correctly but there was no link i.e ethtool eth0 showed this
    "Link detected: no"
    I tried many a things with ethtool and mii-diag utilities , but there was no link and strangely ethtool was unable to determine the speed. (even after disabling auto-negotation and manually setting the values)
    Finally i was able to get things working by passing the following boot time options -
    apm=off noapic
    I have not yet found what the problem is. Any suggestions are welcome.

    I also wanted to shut off the thouchpad as i am using an external mouse. This is how i did it:
    run cat /dev/input/mouse0[1,2,3] and each time move the mouse and touchpad the , when the movement of the touchpad causes garbage , we can use that device as input device. For me it was mouse2. Take a backup of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the mouse section value from /dev/input/mice to /dev/input/mouse2
    Resart the xserver with ctrl + alt + backspace

    Will try to configure WLan and Bluetooth and post it here.
     
    LuckySL, May 8, 2006
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