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TODO: Create a Laptop Testing page for Acer Aspire 7520G.

Here is the spec table, to be removed to the Testing Page later:

CPU

AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (2.0 GHz, 2x512KB L2 cache)

RAM

2GB DDR2

GPU

NVIDIA Ge Force 8400M G Turbo Cache, 256MB

Monitor

17.1" WXGA+ Acer Crystal Brite LCD

Hard Disks

320GB dual HDD (160 GBx2, Western Digital)

Optical Drive

DVD-Super Multi DL ( Matshita DVD-RAM UJ870QJ )

Wired Network Adapter

NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller

Wireless Network Adapter

Atheros AR5007EG 802.11b/g

Firewire Controller

Ricoh OHCI Compliant IEEE1394

Audio Controller

Realtek High Definition Audio Controller, 5.1

Webcam

Acer Crystal Eye

I have not installed yet, still on the live-cd. There seem to be problems with the display. When the pc boots from the cd, after the option Start or Install Ubuntu is selected, the monitor goes black and stays black forever. In multiple attempts I once got a graphic dialog box to chose Graphics Adapter and resolution, after which I got to command line, and startx worked fine. This only happened once.

In Safe Graphics Mode, the monitor still goes black, but eventually the GUI comes up normally, in the correct resolution: 1400x900.

Relative posts in the forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579684 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3560142

Further experimentation on the way... I 'll be back.