On Saturday 10 November 2007 08:00:10 pm Matt T. wrote: > On Sunday 11 November 2007, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > ... > > > 3. Acer Aspire AS4520 > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 > > 2GB RAM > > 160GB HD > > Geforce 7000 > > Same price as (1) > > Works fine with SuSE 10.3 (and not 10.2 yet, 10.2 wouldn't support the > built in Ethernet), except: > > > - wifi (needs new HAL driver for this Atheros chip version, part of the > Madwifi project, hopefully coming soon. Using ndiswrapper and the 64bit > WinXP driver worked once, but not anymore ... dunno why, replaced by dlink > usb wifi stick with ralink km.) > > - sound does not work with the boxed SuSE 10.3, but works fine only after > upgrading all ALSA stuff to the very latest version, this includes the ALSA > kernel module, and setting options in some of the modprobe.d files: > > ---- /etc/modprobe.d/sound --- > options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > --- end --- > > ---- /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base --- > options snd-hda-intel model=acer > --- end --- > > - webcam (not investigated why yet, may be just loading a driver) > > - (memory card reader not tested yet) > > - suspend stuff not tested (don't need it) > > Overall nice notebook for that price, I use it as daily workhorse. Gets a > little hot if having to run at full speed for longer time, you might wanna > use a notebook cooler. > > HTH > Matt
I have a Aspire 5100 with a AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-56 running openSUSE 10.3 and everything works fine, had to use NDISwrapper for the wireless card but thats all, anyways to the point the webcam that Acer uses in their laptops you can find the driver in the webcam driver repo that SUSE has. The only program that I have found that they work with is Kopete and GAIM, or should I say Pidgin. The card reader works out of the box, I can't say anything about the suspend eather, I haven't played with it. One thing that I find about my laptop is that the open sound system is louder than AlSA, so I would test both on your system to see which one works best for you. I do have to say I like Acer's laptops for about $700 USD I have a laptop that preforms better than my friends $1,000 USD Dell laptop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
