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For full specifications see the Acer Extensa 5230E specifications page.
| Name | Acer Extensa 5230E |
| Processor | Intel® Celeron 900, 2.2Ghz, 3MB L2 Cache |
| Screen | 15.4” WXGA Widescreen non-glare |
| RAM | 1GB, up to 4GB |
| HDD | 160GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD-Super Multi Double Layer |
| Graphics | Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD |
| Network | Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (from lspci) |
| WLAN | Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X (from lspci) |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Yes | |
| Screen | Yes | Changing brightness and turning the screen off work. Didn't try VGA-port yet |
| HDD | Yes | |
| Optical Drive | Yes | reading (burning not yet tested) |
| Graphics | Yes | 1280×800 |
| Sound | Yes | Speakers, line out (others not tested) |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | Works in Ubuntu 9.10 with driver ath9k wpa_supplicant (high load seems to hang it) |
| 56K Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | Yes | mouse |
| Camera | n.a. | |
Tested with ubuntu 9.10
* Some of the special buttons work (screen brightness, volume, mail, home, … ) some not. All but one register something with X11 as seen with xev, so can in principle be used.
* Standby and “Suspend to disk” work. “Pressing the power button” and “closing the lid” is properly detected and configurable.
* the fan runs only seldom, quite laptop, goooood!
* touchpad works, also scrolling pages by moving the finger on the right side. tipping the pad works as a click.
* After fixing current ubuntu 9.10 udev issues, it works as an mp3-player with rythmbox, lid closed at 15W and a CPU load of 5%, not bad.
*Works with preinstalled Linpus Linux. Owner Icq:438-710-754
*works with ubuntu 9.10
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