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• Contact: ["Feeling"]
• Make: Acer
• Brand: Aspire
• Model: 2012 WLMi

• Website: http://www.acer.com http://support.acer-euro.com/documents/manuals/notebook/manual_aspire2010.html

• S/N: Only needed if you have a Canonical supplied laptop

Current Issues

Somes modules does'nt work after resuming (hibernate/sleep) :

• acerhk (used for specials keys)
• irda (infrared port) (a temporary solution is to unload/reload these modules after resuming ... )

Hardware details

|| in Breezy (current stable)? || in Dapper (testing)

|| in Breezy (current stable)? || in Dapper (devel) ||

Notes

Special keys

1. Install the AcerHK module [http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/ Acer HK] (for P1 & P2 buttons)

2. at end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, add these lines

setkeycodes e071 201 # for P1 button
setkeycodes e072 202 # for P2 button

1. add these lines in $HOME/.xmodmaprc

keycode 169 = XF86Launch0 # P1 button
keycode 171 = XF86Launch1 # P2 button
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 178 = XF86WWW
keycode 236 = XF86Mail

SpeedStep

Somes Acer 2012Wlmi processors are dothan, like mine :

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 599.585
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 1199.96

Speedstep for centrino works with the standart kernel, but if you want to add 800, 1000 and 1200 Mhz supported by the Dothan follow these steps.

1. patch your kernel with this patch [http://localhost.ruhr.de/~stefan/acerTM292/patches/cpufreq-speedstep-dothan-3.patch Speedstep Centrino Dothan Tables]

2. recompile your kernel, and ... Magic, it works!

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
600000 800000 1000000 1200000 1500000

Before doing that, read the disclaimer for this patch on this site : [http://localhost.ruhr.de/~stefan/acerTM292/]

InfraRed

just load the irda module (modprobe irda), and irtty_sir module, then type as root: irattach /dev/ttyS0.

To Sync with my nokia, personally, i use gnokii / xgnokii ...

Suspend and Hibernate

Works nice since 2.6.14.4, for hibernate, just add "resume=/dev/hdaX" in your grub or lilo config where hdaX is your swap partition like that:

part of menu.lst:

title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.14.5
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14.5 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash resume=/dev/hda3
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.14.5
savedefault
boot

Somes Info

uname -a

Linux Laptop 2.6.14.5 #1 Thu Dec 29 12:09:02 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 855GME GMCH Host-to-AGP Bridge (Virtual PCI-to-PCI) (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
0000:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            2551        4617    16603177+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            4618        4678      489982+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4            4679        7296    21029085   83  Linux

where hda2 is '/' and hda4 is '/home/'

yes i have a fat32 partition .... dont slap me !!! please

last edited 2006-01-06 by Feeling