Hello, I have an acer wlmi 5024.
- installer with 2.6.8 took ~1h to format the drive: atiixp ide chipset is not recognised -> no DMA (formatting 80GB in PIO4 mode is _slow_). - apic throws lots of errors, needs to boot with noapic - acpi is pretty broken: only ac, lid and pwr buttons work, thermal zones and battery status do not. With a patched 2.6.11+acpi the thermal zones work, but still no batitery. 2.6.12+acpi breaks thermal again. At least the display backlight gets powered off when closing the lid. - the keyboard gets lost during boot, and reappears after pressing some keys while closing and reopening the lid a couple of times (this did not happen with 2.6.8). - the psmouse module needs to be rmmodded and modprobed again after the keyboard was found. - 1280x800 15.4" display has 75dpi (no magnifying glasses needed ;-), and works like a charm with proprietaray ati drivers. Not tested 3D games yet, but according to glxinfo it should be accelerated. - gbit lan works - sound works - cpufreq works (800, 1600, 1800MHz states) - the touchpad works good with synaptic driver. - wavelan: broadcom unknown device, not tested yet due to missing infrastructure. Will presumably need a windos x64 dll loaded by ndiswrapper. - the dvd rw did not like the DVDs I tried to watch with it, xine had problems decrypting some of the VOBs on the disk (error in libcss). not tested yet: writing DVDs, irda, bluetooth, svideo-out, usb, pcmcia, firewire, card reader (damn thing has no CF slot), internal modem from a users point of view, this box is pretty broken and should just be returned to the vendor. from my point of view, I am having fun fixing this, but some things are really annoying and I hope to find fixes soon. On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:50:09PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > My old laptop just died on me, I have to quickly get a new one, I > want an amd64 based one and have basically two available choices: an Acer > Aspire 5024WLMI and an Asus A770KLH. The Acer sports slightly faster > processor and ethernet and an ATI Radeon X700 graphics card, wheres the > Asus has an nVidia GeForce 6200. Does anybody have any first-hand > knowledge about whether these laptops or at least their graphic cards work > with the Debian amd64 port? Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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