Installing Ubuntu on Acer Aspire 1363 WLMi

Administrator — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:24:15 +0000

Installing Ubuntu Hoary on Acer Aspire 1363 WLMi

Last updated: 20/03/05

General hardware specifications of Acer Aspire 1363 WLMi:

Hardware components	Status under Linux	Notes
AMD Sempron 3000+	Works.	No special procedure required during installation.
512MB RAM	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
GeForce FX Go 5200	Works	Use the closed-source driver provided by NVidia for performance and display reasons. It is located in the universe-repository: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universe Install by: apt-get install nvidia-glx
15.4 WXGA TFT-Display	Works	Simply generated an appropriate modeline with the videogen-tool. \"1280x800\" 80.36 1280 1320 1520 1640 800 802 804 842
60GB IDE-Harddisk and SlimType DVDRW SOSW-852S	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
4 x USB 2.0 Controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
1 x IEEE1394-Controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
AC97 audio controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
AC97 WinModem	Not tested.
VIA Rhine-II network-adapter	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
Linksys IPN 2220 WLAN-Adapter (IEEE 802.11g)	Works	Works by using ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) and installing the appropriate window$-driver from ftp://ftp.support.acereuro.com/notebook/aspire_1360/driver/80211g.zip. Remember to add ndiswrapper to your “/etc/modules”.

This laptop is operating under kernel version 2.6.10-5.

Distribution-specific notes

Why use Ubuntu

Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org) is Debian made easy. It’s free (as in speech and in beer) and backed by Canonical Ltd., a company
providing professional support for Linux. To my mind, one of the most important advantages regarding Ubuntu is focus:

on one tool per task (e.g. Evolution / Firefox / GAIM)
on ease of use
on desktop operation.

Obtaining Ubuntu

Just get the installation-image from http://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/releases.ubuntu.com/5.04/hoary-preview-install-i386.iso.

Setting up additional features for Ubuntu

Setting up the Synaptic touchpad

Just modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the following:

Section \"InputDevice\"
	
        Identifier      \"Synaptics Touchpad\"
        Driver           \"synaptics\"
        Option          \"SendCoreEvents\"  \"true\"
        Option          \"Device\"          \"/dev/psaux\"
        Option          \"Protocol\"        \"auto-dev\"
        Option          \"LeftEdge\"        \"1700\"
        Option          \"RightEdge\"       \"5300\"
        Option          \"TopEdge\"         \"1700\"
        Option          \"BottomEdge\"      \"4200\"
        Option          \"FingerLow\"       \"25\"
        Option          \"FingerHigh\"      \"30\"
        Option          \"MaxTapTime\"      \"180\"
        Option          \"MaxTapMove\"      \"220\"
        Option          \"VertScrollDelta\" \"100\"
        Option          \"MinSpeed\"        \"0.06\"
        Option          \"MaxSpeed\"        \"0.12\"
        Option          \"AccelFactor\"     \"0.0010\"
	
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Contact information

EMail: tommy”underscore”vossy”at”web”dot”de

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