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Acer Aspire 7540
Introduction
This is a guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire 7540 laptop.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Acer Aspire 7540. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Acer Aspire 7540 page on LapWik.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire 7540 specifications page.
| Name | Acer Aspire 7540 |
| Processor | AMD Turion™ II Dual-Core Mobile Processor M500 (1MB L2 cache, 2.20GHz) AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor M300 (1MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz) |
| Screen | 17.3” 1600×900 Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 4GB |
| HDD | up to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon™ HD 4200 |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Works | |
| Screen | Works | |
| HDD | Works | |
| Optical Drive | Works | |
| Graphics | Works | |
| Sound | Works | |
| Ethernet | Works | |
| Wireless | Works | |
| USB | Works | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | Works |
Notes
Suspend/Resume doesn't work, possibly future distributions will get it working.
Summary
The Suspend feature lets this laptop down, hopefully it will be fixed in the future.
Discussion
Runs great on Ubuntu 10.04. After initial system install you'll to install additional drivers for WiFi and GPU.
everything runs great (webcam, bluetooth etc…). the only glitch is that the button for turning off/on touch-pad will turn it off, but will is unable to turn it back on by pressing it again.