On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]> wrote: > The page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne describes how to set > lenny up on this netbook. I followed the instructions on that page > with some details as below. (You can ignore their instructions for > additional modules except for madwifi; I also ignored all SSD related > instructions as I have a 120G HDD model).
Thanks for the tip. Looks like most customizations are for the SSD, and I have the 160GB (spinning-rust) HDD. This gives me enough confidence to try Lenny. > As you will note from my comment on the Debian Wiki page, I could not > get the internal mic to work. Please let me know if some more recent > version of alsa makes this work for you. This is a deal breaker for me as I'm a heavy Skype user. The built-in webcam is also something I'm using effectively now. And thanks for the tips on madwifi and xmonad :-) > One additional (and frightening!) problem I faced was that two days > after I got the machine it stopped booting! It turns out that Acer > has an essential BIOS update that many vendors have not implemented. > I followed the instructions at > http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html > which shows how the bios of a non-booting(!) Acer Aspire One can be > replaced. Get the latest bios update from the Acer site while you are > at it. I installed the latest BIOS from the Acer website -- I did it using the Windows utility rather than booting from USB. After BIOS upgrade, the laptop kept automatically powering off after ~30s of start up and my OS could not complete booting. I had to enter the new BIOS and load the defaults and then my laptop started working correctly. The tricky bit was that it had to be done before the laptop powered off automatically. Hope this helps someone. - Raja _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
