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Acer Aspire 7551G
Introduction
This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire 7551G laptop.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire 7551G specifications page.
| Name | Acer Aspire 7551G |
| Processor | AMD Phenom™ II Quad-Core Mobile Processor N930 (2MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz) AMD Phenom™ II Triple-Core Mobile Processor N830 (1.5MB L2 cache, 2.10GHz) AMD Turion™ II Dual-Core Mobile Processor P520 (2MB L2 cache, 2.30GHz) AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor P320 (1MB L2 cache, 2.10GHz) |
| Screen | 17.3” 1600×900 Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | up to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray |
| Graphics | ATI Mobility Radeon™ 5650 graphics |
| 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 | Install the proprietary ATI/AMD drivers |
| Sound | Works | |
| Ethernet | Works | |
| Wireless | Works | |
| USB | Works | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | Works |
Notes
Tested with Ubuntu 10.10.
Summary
The Acer Aspire 7551G works very well with Linux.
Discussion
Currently running Linux Mint 10.10 “Julia”.
Video driver has to be downloaded and installed but works fine.
Only problem I have seen so far is the multi-touch gestures, touchpad not properly detected (touchpad works, but not the gestures neither the scroll) and cant find a solution for this yet.
Fully Functional.
Its me again. Here are my specs and my hardware experiences:
AMD Phenom™ II Quad-Core Mobile Processor N930 (2MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz)
4GB RAM
DVD+-RW
Graphics: Successfully played Hitman with Wine and worked flawlessly. Also the plugins for compiz currently running on my laptop (love the 3D Box).
Optical Drive: my DVD+-RW works just fine, reading and burning as it should.
Sound: Working fine. I've used it also with Wine and Propellerhead's Reasons and my midi controller and sounds great!
Ethernet and Wireless Working.
USB: Never had a problem with it. I also connect a Smart Card reader to it and works (you need to install some drivers first for the reader)
Webcam: Works out of the box.
The Laptop acer 7551G runs very good except video card(ATI Readon HD5650). It's a pity that one cannot enjoy vigorous and convenient graphical environment of SUSE.