[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

[Simon Bridge]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:48 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008 15:28:29 Simon Bridge wrote:
> > Hardy Heron is here and first indications are that a fresh install,
> > indeed, clears up most issues. Of special note - the microphone now
> > works!
> 
> How about the wireless? I'm currently uncertain whether to tell my parents to 
> hit the upgrade button, or wait until I have access to the machine to do it 
> and add in any required drivers myself.

The default hardy madwifi drives work not - probably the outstanding
"card misidentifies itself" bug. However, there is a solution which
works nicely - I'll be adding notes to:

http://www.hbclinux.net.nz/acer4315-804.html

Caveat: I *did not* use the "upgrade" option. The reason for this was to
eliminate any possibility of acer-messed configuration in there.

Most of the issues on my list are fixed *out of the box*. The only
remaining issue is suspend - it still reboots instead. Hibernate works
though. Soft restart too.

I have 4gig of swap (and 1gig RAM), that should be enough for swap,
right? (OTOH: Acer did 4.2gig for 0.5gig RAM - maybe I should go to 8gig
swap?)