The Acer Aspire One 722-0828 is a categorized as a netbook, but it is a beautiful little machine, inexpensive and with fairly good processing power. Installation of GNU/Linux (OpenSuse 11.4) on this little machine was fairly easy. The main sticking point was to get the wireless card to work without “freezing” the system.
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| Name | Aspire One 722 (AO722-0828) |
| Processor | AMD Dual-Core C-60 1.0GHz |
| Screen | 11.6” HD Widescreen LCD display (1366 x 768) |
| RAM | 4GB |
| HDD | 500GB |
| Optical Drive | None |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon HD 6290 |
| Network | 802.11b/g/n - 10/100 LAN |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Yes | Comments |
| Screen | Yes | Comments |
| HDD | Yes | Comments |
| Optical Drive | N/A | Comments |
| Graphics | Yes | Comments |
| Sound | Yes | Comments |
| Ethernet | Yes | Comments |
| Wireless | Yes | Comments |
| Bluetooth | N/A | Comments |
| 56K Modem | N/A | Comments |
| USB | Yes | Comments |
| Firewire | N/A | Comments |
| Card Reader | Yes/No/Partial/Not Tested | Comments |
| ExpressCard Slot | N/A | Comments |
| Camera | Yes | Comments |
Based on my experience with Acer Aspire 1551, I decided to go directly to
installing from external optical drive.
Download DVD install image (openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso) from the
openSUSE download site. Boot onto DVD
and choose install, write acpi=off in the kernel option line. Follow
installation menu as per instructions in
Installation Help. After
installing all packages and writing some configuration files, the system will
ask to reboot.
I usually install the system with root password and without
automatic login. After rebooting and logging in I found that the wireless card
had not been detected, this was not a problem because I was connected via a
wired connection.
I brought the system up to date using yast and rebooted again.
Then I added extra repositories including:
- ATI
- Packman
- VideoLan
A new update installed a somewhat old proprietary ATI graphic driver.
… To Be Continued …
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