It comes with windows 7 pre-installed and everything works fine in Windows - Screen res is 1360x768, wifi connects no problem.
I bought it because of the 8 hour battery life, 4gb memory, 500 Gb disk.
From reviews it seems that Acer has changed the specs on this model to address concerns about perormance. Mine has twin core SU4100 1.3 Ghz low voltage intel CPUs and integrated Intel graphics chipset (I can't find the actual designation I believe its the GMA 4500MHD or similar)
No problem getting it to boot Puppy from my USB stick (I will eventually get a dual boot going). However I have a double whammy with Puppy:
I use LHPup that has the 2.6.30.5 kernel.
Firstly The wifi card is recognized as wlan0 but I can't get the firmware it says it needs.
Secondly Xorg will only ever give me 1024x768 regardless of what I specify.
Wifi Problem:
Boot log shows this:
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-1000-2.ucode
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: iwlwifi-1000-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-1000-1.ucode
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: iwlwifi-1000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Could not read microcode: -2
I checked /lib/firmware which has iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode but not iwlwifi-1000-2.ucode or iwlwifi-1000-1.ucode
Tried the intel site, downloaded the tarball for iwlwifi-1000 but it only has "-3".
Googled the problem in the forum and found this link - so someone else has the same problem as me!
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 2edd1e1382
Googled the problem on the web - many people have the same problem - but the advice seems to be no-one knows how to get -1 or -2 versions of the ucode and responders recommend a later version of the linux kernel:
orTim Gardner wrote on 2009-09-30:
After some research and a little correspondence with Intel it turns out that the iwl-1000 series of cards never really worked in 2.6.31. I'm going to retarget this bug to the linux package, and disable the two PCI IDs for these cards. Alternative solutions are to install linux-backports-modules, or run a c2 mainline kernel release candidate (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline).
Can anyone assist with this wifi connection problem?Re: Intel Wifi link 1000 problem
Postby Fitzcarraldo » Thu Jan 07, 2010 21:21
You're going to have to do some detective work. Google "iwlwifi-1000-ucode" and find a site or sites with versions of the package tarball that contain the firmware that is missing, download the tarball(s) to your Desktop, extract iwlwifi-1000-1.ucode and iwlwifi-1000-2.ucode and copy them to the directory /lib/firmware/ (and /lib64/firmware/ if you use a 64-bit version of SL) and then reboot. The tarball for iwlwifi-1000-ucode on Intel's site (http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads) is iwlwifi-1000-ucode-128.50.3.1.tgz and that only contains the firmware file iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode, hence my suggestion to use Google to find earlier versions of the tarball.
i tried that yesterday, but i can`t find an older version (-2,-1).
In that case I think you'll need to install the 2.6.32 kernel, as the driver is built into the kernel and I suspect the 2.6.32 kernel will probably want the iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode firmware rather than the earlier versions which don't appear to be around anymore. The 2.6.32 kernel image is not in Entropy yet, so you'll have to compile it (see the SL Wiki HowTo article on upgrading the kernel using genkernel).
Xorg Graphics problem:
Here's the data reported by hardware info:
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.3.0
-OpenGL-
Vendor : Mesa project
Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
Version : 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)
Direct Rendering : No
It may be related to Xorg 1.4 or perhaps is an Intel specific thing.
Some discussion in this thread that there's a different driver that can be loaded:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=298940
but no resolution.
Can anyone assist with either of these problems (or do I have to take the machine back to Costco?)
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