[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

[Cliff Pratt]

Simon Bridge wrote:
> 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?)
> 
Why are you using that much swap? Firstly, if you are swapping a lot you 
probably need more RAM, and the recommendation is RAM size == SWAP size, 
isn't it?

I have 1GB RAM and a 2GB swap of which I only use a few MB:

root at bumblebee:/home/cliffp# free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1029412    1018784      10628          0       4880     356260
-/+ buffers/cache:     657644     371768
Swap:      2096440      13580    2082860

However I don't load the machine very heavily.

Cheers,

Cliff