[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

Simon Bridge simonbridge at ihug.co.nz
Sun Apr 6 17:53:34 NZST 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 10:42 +1200, Ben Stasiewicz wrote:

> The latest stable release of acer_acpi can be found here : 
> http://aceracpi.googlecode.com/files/acer_acpi-0.11.2.tar.bz2
> After compiling and adding the module to the kernel I added the 
> following line to /etc/modules:
> 
> acer_acpi wireless=1
> 
> Cheers

This is great news. I can set this one as fixed.
Out of Acer's four linux gripes, three are fixable. This leaves the
microphone.

You know - Vik may be onto something with the suggestion to help
coordinate acer/linux releases? Perhaps Acer will lend me some of their
higher spec lappies for, um, review?




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