This platform should work with the latest Nevada bits.
Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> 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)
It should work fine.
> 2) Graphics card ( Intel Media Accelerator X3100) ( I suppose this
> should work)
Ditto.
> 3) WebCam ( Acer "CrystalEye" dont know which exact model it is)
Who knows? There is a support driver for "standard" USB webcams, but I
wouldn't know if your device is a compliant USB webcam or not.
>
>
> 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.
SATA mode *should* work. I have an Intel 965 board in a desktop running
very recent (b77) builds of Nevada just fine. The drives are SATA, and
the BIOS is set to use SATA mode IIRC.
-- Garrett
>
> 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
>
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