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Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on Acer TravelMate 5625WSMi:

Hardware Components

||Intel Core2Duo t7200 2.0Ghz ||||	Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation.||
||17" WXGA+ TFT Display 	||||Works ||||	Select Generic LCD Display in Installer||
||Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 	||||Works ||||	Download Nvidia Linux driver||
||2GB, DDR2 	||||Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation||
||200 GB SATA Hard Drive 	||||Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation||
||Modular Floppy Drive 	||||None 	||
||Integrated Network Card 	||||Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation||
||Internal 56k Modem 	||||Have Not Tried 	||||I Have No Use For 56k modem||
||DVD-Super Multi Drive 	||||Works ||||	No special procedure required during installation||
||Intel(R)PRO/Wireless 3945 Wireless Networking 	||||Works 	||||Automaticly Uses Ubuntu Restricted Driver||
||Lithium-Ion Battery||||Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation||
||Realtek On Board Sound||||Works 	||||No special procedure required during installation||



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

    * 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