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| Name | Acer Aspire 3830 TimelineX |
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i5-450M Mobile Processor (3MB Intel® Smart Cache, 2.4GHz) Intel® Core™ i3-350M Mobile Processor (3MB Intel® Smart Cache, 2.26GHz) |
| Screen | 13.3” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | up to 750GB |
| Optical Drive | None |
| Graphics | Intel® HD Graphics |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000 802.11b/g/n |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | working | |
| Screen | working | |
| HDD | working | |
| Graphics | Intel Card: working | |
| Sound | Not working: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5366 | |
| Ethernet | working | |
| Wireless | working | |
| Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
| Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | working | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | working |
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Discussion
Got the Broadcom bluetooth and wifi card working:
get the Broadcom driver from Rpmfusion (wl) and install it. Reboot.
Press fn and F3. It works!
Sounds works.
Brightness with fn/smartkey not, sound does work, also volume settings.
Blurry is gone after update.
Did seem like a nice one! Bought one, but:
Booting Fedora 14 or 16 from bios with Live-usb difficult (only basic video), with Live-usb-cd succesfull.
No wireless networking, doesn't work out of the box, some blurry text with Gnome 3.0
Sound ok.
Camera ok.
Mic not working.
Put it back in it's box and will try a refund…
Note: Mine had a Broadcom wlan instead of an Intel!
Sound:
Working on 3.1 kernel at least if hibernate from Windows, seems like hardware issue (power of sound card control). One can also hear the sound if plug-unplug power supply for a half of a second, i mean playing music not the “beep”.
On Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bits) sound card is detected but does not work. Cannot adjust brightness and nvidia graphics card is “activated but not in use”.