On Tuesday 22 February 2011 21:51:43 walt wrote:
On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux.
Congratulations :)
Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the
answers, and also to Mr. Google for helping me find them. There are
several tweaks that are required to get things working...
Thank you for the excellent write-up. I still don't have a laptop or a
notebook just because I expect to suffer a lot of pain before I could
actually use it for anything, and you've just confirmed my suspicions :)
By the time I read the last of your 'several' tweaks, my blood pressure
must have been 250 because I can definitely feel your pain.
Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks indeed to Walter for providing such a detailed howto - now time to
repeat in the wiki ;-)
I don't think that it is particularly painful to get a laptop to work (well,
most of the time). You can get a laptop up and running with a full desktop
within a day or so, but it will of course take longer to troubleshoot pesky
devices/drivers and bespoke configurations. That can happen over a period of
days/weeks when free time is available. The frustration of course comes when
you want to use something urgently, which you have not configured yet! :-))
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Regards,
Mick
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