AcerAspire5003WLCi

Revision 22 as of 2006-03-19 00:39:47

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Current Issues (with Dapper Drake Test Flight 4)

Screen should have been 1280x800 resolution and 60hz, instead it's listed as 1280x768 and 61hz. It looks good,though, except that during startup and shutdown, I can't quite see all of the messages. NOTE- I installed Dapper Flight 5 (32-bit) and it comes up as 1024x768, looks bad... I need to reinstall to verify it was not my mistake.

Touchpad scrolling - nothing works, and attempting to scroll down acts as if I right-clicked the mouse

Hardware details

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Installation works?

Yes

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Almost

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Almost

3D Acceleration

Untested

Untested

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

No

Yes

Hibernates?

Untested

Yes

Sleep

Untested

Untested

Dim monitor on battery

Untested

Untested

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Untested

Lid Close

Yes

Yes

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Not out-of-box

Not out-of-box

Hardware volume switch

Untested

Untested

Headphone jack

Yes

Untested

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

No

YES, but Not out-of-box

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Up/Down works, but not side-to-side

No

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

USB

Yes

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

Untested

Untested

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

Untested

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

+ F1

Eject CD/DVD

Yes

+ F2

No

No

+ F3

No

No

+ F4

No

No

+ F5

Untested

Untested

+ F6

Yes

Yes

+ F7

Yes

Yes

+ F8

No

Yes

+ F11

Yes

Yes

+ right arrow

Yes

Yes

+ left arrow

Yes

Yes

+ up arrow

Yes

Yes

+ down arrow

Yes

Yes

+ play/pause

Untested

Untested

+ stop

Untested

Untested

+ ffwd

Untested

Untested

+ rew

Untested

Untested

Other special keys

Launch Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

P

Configurable

Configurable

Acer(e)

Configurable

Configurable

Browser

Yes

Yes

E-Mail

Yes

Yes

Bluetooth

Untested

Untested

Wireless

Untested

Untested

Notes

BREEZY NOTES

Breezy testing was on 32-bit (standard) Breezy, for Dapper, I tested the 64-bit version (test flight 4). When Dapper is released, I will do a new install and verify these results.

The Launch keys are configurable under System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts. Where I have said they are "configurable", that means they are undefined out-of-box, but work after you manually configure them.

Sleep/standby seems quirky, however by closing the laptop and opening it again, that seems to reset everything.

Hibernate almost works; the system comes back alive, but keyboard input is not recognized. (a bit of a showstopper, but hopefully something that is easily fixed)

I did a not-so-thorough performance test to compare the difference between Breezy 32-bit and 64-bit ubuntu/imagemagick by running imagemagick's convert utility on the same set of 85 jpg images. It took 94 seconds on 32-bit, it took 77 seconds on 64-bit (an 18% performance boost)

DAPPER NOTES

As of Dapper Flight 5, "linux vga=771" was no longer necessary : At the "boot:" prompt (via the installation CD), boot with command "linux vga=771"

  • (2/22/2006): I just applied the most recent Dapper updates, and now the battery monitor works perfectly! Closing the lid also now works after the updates were applied.

    WIRELESS CARD NOTES

  • In progress : ["AcerAspire5003WLCiWifi"]
  • (3/14/2006) : I've now got the wireless card working in Dapper 64bit (via ndiswrapper).
  • The chipset that the wireless card uses is 14e4:4318 (rev 02)

  • The driver I'm using : ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip

  • Visit the SetupNdiswrapperHowto and Broadcom43xx to get ndiswrapper working, but here are some brief notes :

  • The card is listed as eth1 ( as opposed to wlan1 which is what most documentation assumes)
  • first, remove the broadcom driver ($sudo rmmod bcm34xx)
  • then add a line "blacklist bcm34xx" to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
  • After that, $sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
  • sub-Note : if you want to rmmod ndiswrapper for some reason, be sure that you've done "$sudo ifdown eth1" first - otherwise the system will lock up

  • The WiFiTroubleshooting is a good place to start troubleshooting

  • There's also WirelessTroubleshootingGuide

  • This laptop has an illuminated button that turns wifi on and off. In XP it's lighted up if the card is active. This makes it tough to know what state the card is in prior to getting it set up in the first place (which hinders the troubleshooting process). I finally booted to XP so that I knew that it was on at the hardware level and was careful not to bump it after rebooting.