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Acer Aspire 5736Z
Introduction
This is a guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire 5736Z laptop.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire 5736Z specifications page.
| Name | Acer Aspire 5736Z |
| Processor | Intel® Pentium® processor T4500 |
| Screen | 15.6” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 4GB |
| HDD | up to 640GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW |
| Graphics | Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | work imediately | |
| Screen | work imediately | it's just a screen it's normal |
| HDD | work imefiately | |
| Optical Drive | wotk imediately | |
| Graphics | work imefiately | but not with the last ubuntu (black screen issue |
| Sound | work immediately | |
| Ethernet | work imediately | |
| Wireless | work | but need an user manipulation |
| Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
| Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | work imediately | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | work immediately |
Notes
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Summary
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Discussion
In Fedora 15, I can't set screen resolution (stuck at 1024×768)
My kernel is 2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 (intel GMA support seems to have been added in 2.6.33 (I can't find where I've read this)
I've tried to “X -configure” and replace the xorg.conf file (which was configured with intel driver)
I've tried i910 driver in xorg.conf
If I remove nomodeset in kernel line from grub.conf, I have the black screen issue… (This is why i have voted “good” but not “excellent”
I don't have configured anything for the wifi, and it works out of the box.
the blank screen issue which is mentioned here is due to X, boot with the parameter “nomodeset” into linux, then go to the none-graphic screen and log in as root, then run “X -configure”.
The Xserver will then load each driver module, probe for the driver and create a configuration file. The configuration file will be stored in the home directory of the user who started the Xserver (usually /root). It's called xorg.conf.new so another config file that may exist in this directory will be overwritten.
We are done so far and we can restart the laptop.
We log in to KDE as root this time using the root password. Opening the file browser and we find in our root the newly made file xorg.conf.new we copy that and we place it in
/etc/X11/
and we rename the file as
xorg.conf
Shutdown the laptop again and start it (NO REBOOT) and after log-in as normal user to KDE the screen now should display the normal resolution.