Hi All, I recently bought an Acer Aspire 2920. Ubuntu runs like a charm.
I want to install Nevada b78 on it. ( dual boot it along with Acer-supplied WinXP) I want to find out the following 1) How good is the support for the wireless card (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) 2) Graphics card ( Intel Media Accelerator X3100) ( I suppose this should work) 3) WebCam ( Acer "CrystalEye" dont know which exact model it is) And the *biggest* worry This laptop has the new Intel 965 board ( with Santa Rosa ) This laptop has two different SATA modes AHCI and IDE Emulation IDE Emulation offers poor performance, but better behaviour on non-Windows systems. Firstly i tried installing S10 on the machine ; it printing an error message on the console and rebooted in a fraction of a second. Thus was unable to capture the error. I tried installing SXDE 9/07 on this laptop. I faced similar problems to S10 ( Some error msg on the console for a fraction of a second, then reboot) I know I am not giving a very scientific description of the problem; but here is what i can tell you about it: For some reason, in AHCI mode Ubuntu Linux fails to installs ( essentially mkfs.ext3 hangs while making inodes) for partitions > 100 GB (at install time only) Post install however, there is no problem with making any partition > 100GB Thanks Manish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080110/59846345/attachment.html>
