Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on Acer TravelMate 5625WSMi:
Hardware Components
Intel Core2Duo t7200 2.0Ghz |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation. |
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17" WXGA+ TFT Display |
Works |
Select Generic LCD Display in Installer |
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Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 |
Works |
Download Nvidia Linux driver |
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2GB, DDR2 |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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200 GB SATA Hard Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Modular Floppy Drive |
None |
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Integrated Network Card |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Internal 56k Modem |
Have Not Tried |
I Have No Use For 56k modem |
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DVD-Super Multi Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Intel(R)PRO/Wireless 3945 Wireless Networking |
Works |
Automaticly Uses Ubuntu Restricted Driver |
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Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Realtek On Board Sound |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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No special procedure required during installation Bluetooth Works
Requires acerhk module loaded See notes below
This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.20-16 Generic Basic Installation of Ubuntu 7.10 Feisty Fawn
- Installing
- Installing Ubuntu is streight forward however there ware problems with using the Preinstalled Vista partition resizing utility, basicly it hosed the vista installation. I would suggest if Dual Boot is To be maintained first make the full factory backup disc from within Vistsa/Acer empowerment. then remove the vista C and D partitions compleatly.MAKE SURE YOU DONT DELETE THE ACER RECOVERY PARTITION IF YOU EVER WANT TO REPLACE THE VISTA INSTALL. Then create a small 10 gig ntfs partition for vista and a 10 gig fat32 partition for the Acer eRecovery to work. I then made a 40 gig partition for linux and a 1Gig swap partition and then made the rest of the drive an EXT2 partition to share with vista.Below is a representation of my Drive Partitions
RecF32 VistaC_NTFS VistaD_F32 ext3 / ext2 share swap
- Installing Ubuntu is streight forward however there ware problems with using the Preinstalled Vista partition resizing utility, basicly it hosed the vista installation. I would suggest if Dual Boot is To be maintained first make the full factory backup disc from within Vistsa/Acer empowerment. then remove the vista C and D partitions compleatly.MAKE SURE YOU DONT DELETE THE ACER RECOVERY PARTITION IF YOU EVER WANT TO REPLACE THE VISTA INSTALL. Then create a small 10 gig ntfs partition for vista and a 10 gig fat32 partition for the Acer eRecovery to work. I then made a 40 gig partition for linux and a 1Gig swap partition and then made the rest of the drive an EXT2 partition to share with vista.Below is a representation of my Drive Partitions
- Post-Install modifications/tweaks
- After installation the only things i needed to tweak were bluetooth and the card reader. these simply needed a few lines placed in the modules file
#drivers for bluetooth |
acerhk force_series=610 |
#drivers for card reader |
tifm_7xx1 |
tifm_core |
tifm_sd |
Setting up additional features for Ubuntu
- Switching Bluetooth radio on/off
- The bluetooth radio and wifi radio buttons dont work. However there are commands in acerhk that turn the BT radio on/off. these are:
echo on > /proc/driver/acerhk/blueled |
echo off > /proc/driver/acerhk/blueled |
- however i wrote a simple bash script and thats activated with a launcher to toggle the radio off and on
#!/bin/bash |
blueon='cat /home/holto/bin/.ledstate' |
if [ $blueon = "0" ]; then |
echo on > /proc/driver/acerhk/blueled |
echo 1 > /home/holto/bin/.ledstate |
else |
echo off > /proc/driver/acerhk/blueled |
echo 0 > /home/holto/bin/.ledstate |
fi |
Unresolved issues
- 56k modem anybody?
Contact Information
- e-mail address = holto2go at icqmail dot com