On 15/07/11 13:06, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
anyone got any experience of the a
Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop
with 11.04
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261508
i have googled and its come up with mixed reviews some saying it hangs
on shutdown and other issues right up to hardly any issues.
i will mainly use it for
web browsing (i have flash but also flash block)
e-mail
open / libreoffice
some of the games such as glest, open arena etc that comes with ubuntu
i also use software such as scratch
so nothing that is going to be too demanding, my older dell 10v can
cope with the above so with ion 2 (assuming that it is supported by
nvidia drivers) should give better performance.
Paul
Yes I have one...have had it for about two months now, purchased from
Ebuyer.
Mine came pre-installed with Linpus Linux which I quickly deleted and
installed Ubuntu 11.04.
It works pretty much out of the box. You need to install the proprietary
nvidia driver and there is a quick fix for the shutdown problem by
blacklisting a particular wireless driver as follows:
place "blacklist rt2800pci" at the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
and reboot. You will need to initially switch off the unit by holding
the power button down for a few seconds but after you will be able to
reboot/shutdown without any problem.
I am delighted with my little Revo, it runs on very low power and is
almost completely silent.
It is perfect for everyday use and works great with multimedia by virtue
of the onboard nvidia ion graphics chip.
If you require any further info Paul, please email me direct
I can thoroughly recommend.
regards,
Steve
macstev...@gmail.com
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