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Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T
Introduction
This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T laptop.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T page on LapWik.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T specifications page.
| Name | Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T |
| Processor | Intel® Centrino® mobile processor technology, featuring Intel® Core™2 Solo processor with 3 MB L2 cache |
| Screen | 13.3” 1366 x 768 Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 4GB |
| HDD | Up to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | None |
| Graphics | Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (dual-band quad-mode 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N) |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | OK | |
| Screen | OK | |
| HDD | OK | SATA MODE |
| Graphics | OK | INTEL GMA 4500MHD |
| Sound | OK | |
| Ethernet | OK | ATHEROS GIGABIT |
| Wireless | OK | INTEL 5100 VERSION |
| Bluetooth | OK | |
| Modem | Not Tested | NO BUILT-IN MODEM IN 3810T |
| USB | OK | |
| Card Reader | OK | |
| Webcam | OK |
Notes
tested with latest Sidux i686 (not RC kernel), workable from the box (except wi-fi - lwiwifi package required).
Summary
You can enter a summary of how well the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T works with Linux here.
Author(s)
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Discussion
gnewsense 2.3 DeltaH liveCD works perfectly with ethernet access.
For wifi, get microcode iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz from http://intellinuxwireless.org/ and put in /lib/firmware
the default cpu throttling did not work correctly, I installed cpufreqd to solve problem.
i couldn't get totem player to work however. So I downloaded the mplayer source and compiled it with gui enabled (./configure –enable-gui) with no problem (after installing cpufreqd). I had to add “vesafb:mtrr,ywrap vga=ask” to grub to have ”/dev/fb0”. Play videos with 'mplayer -vo x11'
the brightness buttons display the brightness but does not change it. to fix this, add the following code:
SET_BRIGHTNESS=`cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness | grep current: | cut -d' ' -f2`
setpci -s `lspci | grep VGA | cut -d' ' -f1` F4.B=$SET_BRIGHTNESS
at the bottom of the following files:
/etc/acpi/video_brightnessup.sh
/etc/acpi/video_brightnessdown.sh
and everything should work fine.
There is a help page for Ubuntu support on this laptop here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireTimeline
And a launchpad group for the Acer Timeline series with a very large community, including a mailing list here:
https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline
Aspire Timeline 3810T (Dos based) it support windows vista 64bit or not?